Spontaneous luxation of the crystalline lens into the anterior chamber (a clinical case report)
Pop, R.
Oftalmologia 36(1): 61-63
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 1220-0875 PMID: 1520672 Document Number: 389682
A patient of 45 years old presents a sprained crystal in the anterior chamber, with secondary acute glaucoma at the left eye and surgically aphakia with ciliary staphyloma and optic atrophia for the right eye. VOR zero; VOL-PL; TOR-17,3 mm Hg; TOL-81, 9 mm Hg. After hypotension of the eye using a perfusion of mannitol and acetazolamide the ocular tension is normalized. It is practiced the extraction of the lens from the anterior chamber with a good post-surgically evolution. The disease may be joined to Marfan, Marchesani, syndrome homocystinuria or an early diagnosis of the zone without any manifest cause.