Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 2629-2631, December 2004

Clear lens extraction for the treatment of persistent accommodative spasm after head trauma

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand

Accepted 11 May 2004.

We report the case of a 28-year-old man with decreased visual acuity after closed head trauma sustained in a motor vehicle accident 16 weeks earlier. Several structures thought to be associated with the control of accommodation were injured. The patient had a persistent accommodative spasm causing up to 7.0 diopters of pseudomyopia. We present the patient's progress through the clinic, including manifest and cycloplegic refractions and results of a trial with atropine drops, and successful transition to bilateral pseudophakia 2 years and 9 months after the accident.

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 Presented at the branch meeting of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, National Park, New Zealand, May 2003.None of the authors has a proprietary or financial interest in any material or method mentioned.

PII: S0886-3350(04)00648-0

doi:10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.05.049

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 2629-2631, December 2004

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