A 64-year-old Caucasian female presented with right-sided cataract in 2009 at the age of 59. She had a background history of rheumatoid arthritis treated with methotrexate. She had developed right herpetic retinitis in 2005. She underwent uncomplicated phacoemulsification with an Alcon SN60WF inserted in-bag. Loose zonules were noted at the time of the cataract surgery, and no capsular tension ring was inserted. Postoperatively, her acuity was 6/6. In May 2013, 47 months post-surgery review, there was no evidence of IOL instability; however, she represented 6 months later in November 2013 with right eye fluctuating vision and a right-sided in-bag IOL dislocation. Two months later, she underwent a right-sided anterior approach PCIOL explantation and anterior vitrectomy with anterior chamber intraocular lens (ACIOL). Postoperatively, her corrected visual acuity was 6/12.
A-76-year-old Japanese woman complained of blurred vision in her left eye. She reported that she had undergone cataract surgery with an implantation of an IOL without any complications 8 years earlier. She also reported that she had been diagnosed with presumed sarcoidosis 15 years earlier in another University Hospital based on the Japanese diagnostic criteria. Although mild iritis, vitreous opacities, and peripheral multifocal chorioretinitis were present, the iritis was under control by topical steroids. She had undergone pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with cataract surgery in an eye with mild vitreous opacities, an epiretinal membrane (ERM), and macular edema (ME) in another eye 12 years earlier. Since then, the ocular inflammation has been stable in both eyes.\nWhen she was referred to our hospital, her best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/20 in the eye with the inferiorly subluxed IOL in her left eye (). The intraocular pressure (IOP) was 9 mmHg in the right eye and 10 mmHg in the left eye. Slit-lamp examination revealed no cells in the anterior chamber (AC). Pseudoexfoliation was not observed, but multifocal hyperpigmented chorioretinal atrophy was present in both eyes. After an increase of blurred vison to 20/25, she underwent 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy in January 2011 during which the 3-piece acrylic IOL was displaced into a bed of intravitreal perfluorocarbon liquid (PFCL). The IOL was then removed through a 7.0-mm corneal scleral incision. A constriction of the capsule of the lens was not observed intraoperatively. A fornix-based conjunctival peritomy was made at 270 degrees followed by the construction of a partial thickness triangular limbal based scleral flaps 180 degrees apart. Then, a one-piece P336UV (Bausch and Lomb, Rochester, NY) was placed in the posterior chamber (PC) using the ab externo method with PAIR-PAKTM needles (Alcon Laboratory). Then, 10–0 polypropylene sutures were passed through the haptic eyelets and sutured to the sclera. The suture knots were buried under the scleral flaps, and scleral flaps were sutured with 8–0 vicryl sutures to avoid suture-related complications. Thereafter, the IOL was stable with minimal cells in the AC, and the BCVA has remained between 20/20 to 20/16 for 8 years (). Confluent pigmented chorioretinal atrophy was clearly observed postoperatively (). The visual field was constricted ().