AU - Dai, Yunhai AU - Huang, Yusen AU - Liu, Ting AU - Xie, Lixin TI - Laboratory analyses of two explanted hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lenses PT - BRIE DP - 2014 Jun 1 TA - Indian Journal of Ophthalmology PG - 737-739 VI - 62 IP - 6 4099- https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2014;volume=62;issue=6;spage=737;epage=739;aulast=Dai;type=0 4100- https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2014;volume=62;issue=6;spage=737;epage=739;aulast=Dai AB - Two three-piece hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lenses (IOLs) were explanted from two patients at 7 and 9 years, respectively, after implantation, because of poor fundus visualisation and/or a clinically significant decrease in visual acuity related to their opacified IOLs. In addition to light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy was used for the first time to observe the explanted IOLs. The clinical aspect seemed to correspond to the phenomenon of surface light scattering, while laboratory analyses showed dense glistenings in the central layer of the IOL optic, which had no change next to the surface. Further studies on these phenomena are needed.