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    Shocking Case: Mega-Implantable Phakic Contact Lens: A Ray of Hope for Buphthalmic Eyes With High Myopia

    By Jagat Ram, MBBS, Parul Chawla Gupta, MS, Simar Rajan Singh, MBBS, Vijay Kumar Sharma, Jr, MS, R. Balamurugan, Jr, MD, Surbhi Khurana, Jr, MBBS, MS, Amit Gupta, MS, Sushmita Kaushik, MBBS
    Video Journal of Cataract, Refractive, & Glaucoma Surgery
    08:21
    Cataract/Anterior Segment, Childhood Glaucoma, Congenital Glaucoma, Glaucoma, IOP and Aqueous Flow, Pediatric Ophth/Strabismus
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    To treat a pediatric patient with unilateral buphthalmos and high myopia who continued to have distorted vision a year after undergoing trabeculotomy and trabeculectomy, Dr. Jagat Ram and colleagues created a customized "mega-implantable" phakic lens and inserted it between the iris and the crystalline lens. This phakic lens needed to be larger than normal because the patient's sulcus-to-sulcus length was 14.55 mm, greater than the standard phakic IOL length of 12.75 mm.

    Financial Disclosures: Dr. Jagat Ram discloses no financial relationships. Dr. Parul Chawla Gupta discloses no financial relationships. Dr. Simar Rajan Singh discloses no financial relationships. Dr. Vijay Sharma discloses no financial relationships. Dr. R. Balamurugan discloses no financial relationships. Dr. Surbhi Khurana discloses no financial relationships. Dr. Amit Gupta discloses no financial relationships. Dr. Sushmita Kaushik discloses no financial relationships.