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Table 4. Selected Ocular Comorbidities
Amblyopia • Reduced visual potential
Age-related macular
degeneration
• Reduced visual potential
• Unrecognized preoperative exudative disease
Diabetic retinopathy • Unrecognized retinopathy
• Progression of existing retinopathy
• Clinically significant macular edema (CSME)
• Poorly dilating postoperative pupil
• Neovascularization of the iris, neovascularization of the
angle, and neovascular glaucoma
Epiretinal membrane • Reduced visual potential
• CSME
Fuchs corneal
endothelial dystrophy
• Reduced visualization during surgery
• Prolonged postoperative corneal edema
• Pseudophakic bullous keratopathy
• Reduced visual potential
Glaucoma • Elevated postoperative IOP
• Reduced function of prior filtering surgery
Pseudoexfoliation
(exfoliation syndrome)
• lntraoperative miosis
• Zonular laxity or instability
• Vitreous loss
• Retained nuclear fragments
• Elevated postoperative IOP
• Accelerated PCO
• Anterior capsulorrhexis contraction
• IOL tilt and decentration
• Late dislocation of IOL or of bag-lOL complex
Retinopathy of
prematurity
• Amblyopia
• lntraoperative miosis
• Traction retinal detachment
• Loose zonules
Strabismus • Amblyopia
• Postoperative diplopia
Uveitis • Posterior synechiae
• Weakened zonules
• Protein and cellular deposits on the lens implant
• CME
• Secondary glaucoma
• Prolonged postoperative inflammation
