Film 82278: The Dead Bag Syndrome | ASCRS
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Film 82278: The Dead Bag Syndrome
April 2022
Meeting: 2022 ASCRS Annual Meeting
Presenting Author: Liliana Werner, MD, PhD
Producers: Nicole Fram, MD, ABO; Jason Jones, MD; Nick Mamalis, MD; Samuel Masket, MD , ABO; Gregory Ogawa, MD
Category: Cataract Complications
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A "dead bag syndrome" has been recently described, in which the capsular bag appears to be clear many years after surgery, becoming diaphanous and floppy, and unable to support the IOL within it. The findings of this syndrome are described in this video, and illustrated through surgical videoclips, clinical photographs, and histopathological evaluation.

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