Macular holes following lens implantation surgery

Two patients, women of 56 and 62, developed macular hole soon after extracapsular cataract extraction with posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation. Although preoperative macular function test [MFT] gave visual acuity of 20/40 [6/12] in each patient, the best visual acuity achieved postoperatively was 20/200 [6/60] in the first patient and 20/100 [6/30] in the second. It is important that the eye surgeons remain alert to this relatively uncommon but very distressing postoperative complication while planning for and during the intraocular manipulations of cataract operation