[Cataract extraction and lens implantation in glaucomatous eyes after trabeculectomy]. / Usuniecie zacmy i wszczepienie soczewki w oczach z jaskra po trabekulektomii.

PURPOSE: Presentation of problems connected with an implantation of eye lens after trabeculectomy with changed anatomic conditions. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In 51 cases of patients with cataract and glaucoma, following a trabeculectomy operation, ECCE was made by corneal incision and lens implantation into posterior chamber. In the analysis, the following were taken into consideration: state of the eye before cataract operation, intrasurgical difficulties with necessary application of additional surgical actions, evaluation of postoperative course. RESULTS: In 41.1% of patients, surgical operations followed a non-typical way and the below procedures were necessary: loosening of adhesions, mechanical pupillary dilation, tearing off fibrous or stained membrane, iridorrhaphy and pupil reconstruction. Posterior chamber lens was implanted in 96% of patients and the following acuity was achieved: 0.5-1.0 in 25 eyes, 0.3-0.4 in 13 eyes, 0.02-0.2 in 10 eyes. There was no acuity improvement in 3 eyes only. CONCLUSIONS: Operation posterior chamber lens implantation after trabeculectomy can proceed in a non-typical way because of changed anatomic conditions. Postoperative functional results depend on the degree of nerve lesion (injury), but they are often better than preoperative prognoses indicate.

[Evaluation of the macula which was not involved in retinal detachment after surgical treatment of retinal detachment using scleral indentation. Summary of a doctoral thesis]. / Ocena plamki nie objetej odwarstwieniem po leczeniu operacyjnym odwarstwienia siatkówki za pomoca wpuklenia zewnatrztwardówkowego. Streszczenie pracy doktorskiej.

The goal of the study was the evaluation of the influence of the nowadays most frequently used surgical methods in cases of retinal detachment on the macula not involved in the detachment. The study takes into account surgical interventions which have the same indications and principles of action. They are based on an extra-scleral indentation--temporary or permanent one--by means of a Lincoff-Kreissig balloon and a meridional silicone sponge implant. The examinations comprised 54 patients. They were divided into 2 groups: 1st group (24 patients) was treated by cryopexy and a Lincoff-Kreissig balloon, the 2nd group (30 patients) by cryopexy and a meridional silicone sponge implant. In all the patients of both groups the retina reattached. During the 5-years observation of patients of the 1st group no macular changes were detected; one did not observe metamorphopsia or disturbances of the color vision. In the 2nd group instead 17 patients claimed metamorphopsia, 20 patients showed disturbances of the color vision and angiography changes involving the macular region (13 patients).

[Proliferative vitreoretinopathy as a cause of early recurrence of retinal detachment]. / Proliferacyjna witreoretinopatia jako przyczyna wczesnej wznowy odwarstwienia siatkówki.

Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58). In the first group the apposition was achieved in 92 p.c., in the 2d group in 90 p.c. An early recurrence (2 weeks to 2 months) was observed in 9 eyes which were operated again achieving an apposition of the retina in 6 eyes. There were following causes of the failure: the existence of a second hole, rupture of the balloon, PVR before surgery and traction of the retina in the region of the hole. An early recurrence occurred in the consequence of intensification of the PVR together with inaccurate localization of the implant, existence of the PVR before the operation and traction of the retina in the vicinity of the hole, formation of a new hole.