Inadvertent staining of the posterior lens capsule with trypan blue dye during phacoemulsification.
Inadvertent staining of the posterior lens capsule with trypan blue dye during phacoemulsification.
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在超声乳化手术期间无意中用台盼蓝染料染色晶状体后囊。
DOI:
10.1001/archopht.119.7.1082
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发表时间:
2001
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通讯作者:
George S. Turner
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作者:
Wayne Birchall;Matthew K. Raynor;George S. Turner
nation from the surface of the posterior capsule, giving the pale blue appearance. There was a small area of residual central posterior capsule fibrosis, which may also have contributed to the opaque appearance. Note the halo of dark capsule around the intraocular lens implant. No fundal details were recordable by fundus photography. Sixteen hours later, a very faint red reflex was discernible (Figure 2), and at 1 week the blue discoloration of the posterior capsule had cleared and the disc and retina no longer appeared blue. Visual acuity remained poor at 3/60 because of macular scarring after the retinal detachment. Use of the vital dye trypan blue to stain the anterior lens capsule and facilitate capsulorrhexis for phacoemulsification of mature white cataract has been advocated, 1 and it appears to be free of adverse effects, including corneal endothelial toxic effects. 2,3 Recent studies on cadaver eyes confirm that the dye will also stain the posterior capsule. 4 The trypan blue molecule is large, however, and under normal circumstances does not appear to cross the intact zonula ciliaris (lens zonules) 5 ; it is likely that an intact anterior hyaloid face would prevent bulk flow of dye into the vitreous cavity. Presumably, in our patient, unobserved zonular dehiscence and possibly some degree of separation of the anterior hyaloid face from the posterior lens surface caused by previous pars plana vitrectomy allowed the dye to gain access to and stain the posterior capsule. Another potential barrier, the annular hyaloideocapsular ligament (of Weiger), is no longer intact at our patient’s age. It appears that the posterior capsule was sufficiently deeply stained to prevent adequate light transmission to and from the retina, thus abolishing the red reflex, and the residual capsular fibrosis probably contributed to the opaque appearance of the capsule on coaxial illumination. Although there were no apparent adverse effects in this case, one should be alert to the possibility of this temporary phenomonen occurring when trypan blue is used during complex postvitrectomy cataract surgery.