Management of pseudophakic retinal detachment with various intraocular lens types.

In the last five years, 25 cases of retinal detachment (RD) after intraocular lens implantation were treated in the University Eye Clinic of Thessaloniki. The incidence of RD was lower with posterior chamber intraocular lens (PC-IOL, 0.46%) implantation than in the cases with anterior chamber IOL(AC-IOL, 2.6%) implantation. The successful reattachment rate was higher with PC-IOL (100%) that in the cases with AC-IOL where the low success (87%) rate was caused by proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Therefore, the eyes with AC-IOL required reoperation more frequently, and the ultimate failure rate (despite multiple operations) was higher in the AC-IOL group