. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2011 Sep 16;118(12):2330–2334. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.06.017

Table 1.

Number of Patients with Selected Adverse Events and with Surgery for that Event

Adverse Event	CL (57 patients)		IOL (57 patients)
Adverse Event	# with Event	# with Surgery	# with Event	# with Surgery
Lens reproliferation into visual axis	1	1	24	23
Pupillary membrane	0		17	17
Corectopia	1	0	11	8
Glaucoma	3	1	7	4
Retinal detachment	2	2	0
Wound dehisence	0		1	1
IOL exchange	0		1	1
Vitreous wick	0		1	1
Lattice Degeneration^*	1	1	0

Not considered related to cataract surgery.

IOL- intra ocular lens

CL- contact lens

Note: Numbers do not represent unique patients, i.e., one patient could be in more than one category.