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 ().
A 45-year-old Caucasian male presented with right eye cataract secondary to previous bilateral uveitis in 2008 at the age of 39. Background history includes type 2 diabetes diagnosed in 2011. Ocular history included herpetic keratouveitis with bilateral acute retinal necrosis diagnosed in 2006 (now quiescent) and bilateral relapsing remitting macular oedema treated with multiple IVTA injections. His preoperative right eye vision was counting fingers, and he underwent an uncomplicated phacoemulsification with a 19.0D Alcon SN60WF PCIOL inserted into the bag. Postoperatively, the patient continued to have intermittent severe macular oedema and received three further right eye IVTA injections between 2008 and 2013. His right eye vision has improved to 6/9 by February 2013; however, some right eye PCIOL dislocation was noted. Sixty-four months after his initial PCIOL implant, the patient was found to have right eye in-bag PCIOL dislocation and a vision of 6/24−1 in June 2013. Two months later, he underwent a right-sided anterior approach IOL extraction and secondary anterior chamber IOL implantation. On last review, his right eye vision was 6/36.