The major risk factors for getting bilateral eye injuries in traffic accidents proved to be: sitting in the front car seats, not fastening the seat belt and alcohol intoxication. Prevention of these risk factors would result in a decrease in such a large number of bilateral eye injuries.

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This is a case report of a female patient who, due to high myopia, had silicone phakic intraocular lens type Fyodorov with plate-haptics implanted in the posterior chamber (PC pIOLs). The anterior subcapsular cataract (ASC) resulted in significant reduction of visual acuity and, therefore, the patient, after 16 years of the first surgery, underwent another surgical intervention. She had the pIOLs explantation, phacoemulsification and implantation of the flexible intraocular lens (IL) in the capsular bag. Explantation of the pIOLs, cataract surgery by phacoemulsification and IOL implantation were carried out through the same clear corneal incision and the intraoperative course was uneventful. The visual acuity of the operated eye was equal to pre-cataract period.

Inroduction. To describe a rare case of cataract surgery in a patient with an extreme, widespread anterior staphyloma following severe bilateral necrotising anterior scleritis associated with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). Case report. A 61-year-old man with a history of GPAdeveloped bilateral rapidly progressive necrotising scleritis and peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK). Inflammation compromised the entire anterior globe and peripheral cornea in both eyes. More than 90% of the surface area healed within 8 weeks following treatment with 3 pulsed doses of methylprednisolone in addition to cyclophosphamide treatment. Systemic steroid therapy was slowly tapered over 6 months. Extraordinary scleral loss with a uveal bulge developed following severe necrotising anterior scleritis associated with PUK. Once full remission had been achieved for 6 months, uncomplicated phacoemulsification was performed in his left eye; only the left eye was functional. Conclusion. Preoperative and postoperative control of inflammation, careful surgical planning and meticulous surgical techniques are critically important for optimal surgical outcomes. To our knowledge, phacoemulsification in a patient with coexisting uveitic cataract and severe anterior staphyloma has not been previously reported.

Purpose: Assessment of complication in surgery of complicated cataracts and option of postponement of surgery. Setting: Clinic for eye diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia Methods: This was a retrospective observational case series. Results: In 16 patients subjected to cataract surgery by method of phacoemulsification, three experienced complications during surgery. Two experienced rupture of posterior lens capsule and prolapse of the vitreous body, and one, expulsive hemorrhage. The visual acuity in all three patients was lesser than the preoperative visual acuity. In the second group of 16 patients, after having been acquainted with the survey, the cataract surgery was postponed and the patients were controlled after one year. The cataract progressed just partially in certain patients and all the patients were satisfied with the status of their vision and did not demand surgery. CONCLUSIONS: Cataract surgery in complicated cases may be accompanied by complications with uncertain postoperative visual results. Therefore, in patients with complicated cataracts and relatively preserved visual acuity, it is necessary to be careful with proposing surgery and often obey their wish to postpone surgery. This should be done particularly with patients of advanced age, patients with poor general status of life and in monoculuses.