Cataract Quiz: What’s wrong with the IOL?

Time for a Cataract Quiz, featuring guest surgeon Dr. Sourabh D. Patwardhan from India, featuring a complication with an IOL. Look carefully at the picture: can you tell what is the issue? And if so, how will you fix it during surgery? The technique to fix this is not easy — it requires expert hands and a specialized technique.

Click below to learn a great surgical pearl from this Cataract Quiz:

look at the still intra-op pic above and you can see the position of the haptic holes indicating an upside down IOL orientation. The pic below shows the difference:

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