A nanophthalmic eye with a miotic pupil, posterior synechiae, lax zonule and floppy iris undergoes pars plana vitrectomy in order to deepen the anterior chamber
Removal of a dislocated crystalline lens with suturing of a capsular tension ring segment and salvage of the lens capsule for IOL fixation is demonstrated.
Richard J Mackool, MD Financial Disclosure: Richard J. Mackool, MD and RJ Mackool, MD are consultants with Alcon.
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Richard Mackool MD, a world renowned anterior segment ophthalmic microsurgeon, has assembled a video collection of both routine and challenging cases, demonstrating both familiar and potentially unfamiliar surgical techniques using a variety of instrumentation and surgical console parameters. This educational activity presents a series of these videos, carefully selected to address the specific learning objectives of this effort, with the goal of providing surgical training videos online to surgeons motivated to improve or expand their surgical knowledge.
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