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PURPOSE: To study the varied clinical presentations of patients with spherophakia, their management using surgical methods, and the clinical outcomes.Patients and methodsA prospective interventional study of 13 patients of spherophakia who presented to us from January 2014 and were followed up over the course of their treatment, and the data were documented for analysis. RESULTS: In all, 26 eyes of 13 patients were reviewed and the median age of presentation was 12±12.05 years. All patients had a bilateral presentation with 22 eyes having lenticular myopia with a mean refractive error of -11.5±12.945 DS. Ten eyes presented with glaucoma of which six had raised intraocular pressure (IOP) >21 mm Hg. A total of 23 eyes underwent lens extraction for dislocation/subluxation. Lens extraction helped lower overall IOP. Refractive rehabilitation was done with ACIOL, posterior chamber intraocular lens (PCIOL) with capsular tension ring, and scleral-fixated intraocular lens (SFIOL) in respective cases with ACIOLs being the most commonly used option. CONCLUSIONS: Spherophakia is a rare condition, which exhibits a varying degree of lenticular myopia, glaucoma, and subluxation of the crystalline lens. Lensectomy with proper rehabilitation using ACIOL, PCIOL, or SFIOL is a method of managing subluxation and unacceptable myopia. Lensectomy may also be a viable option of controlling glaucoma alongside medications and glaucoma surgery for the management of glaucoma in such cases.
Cataract and Refractive Surgery Services, Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Full article9.4.4.5 Other (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders > 9.4.4 Glaucomas associated with disorders of the lens)
9.1.2 Juvenile glaucoma (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.1 Developmental glaucomas)