Extracapsulaire en intracapsulaire lensextracties bij cataract

– In the treatment of cataract, extracapsular lens extraction with implantation of an artificial lens has largely replaced intracapsular extraction. This change led to a very pronounced increase of the number of patients who could be treated in this manner. This increase is more pronounced with advancing age of the patients.

The clinical mortality in hospital of patients subjected to a lens extraction is higher than might have been expected, especially among patients of very advanced age. Between 1979 and 1985, among 79,000 patients, 200 deaths were recorded.