Updated concepts in extracapsular pseudophakia: posterior chamber pseudophakia.

Some concepts regarding posterior chamber pseudophakia have been set forth. Clearly, this is still investigational, and it is for that reason that I would urge the readers to exercise great judgement and wait for the results of laboratory testing of this rhetorical hypothesis. Currently, I am proceeding most patiently with posterior chamber pseudophakia in Rhesus monkeys using the Harris-McGhan lens, the Praeger suture style modification, and the Shearing posterior chamber lens. The ultimate answers will probably be answered over a due course of time in the human subject, but suffice it to say that the scientific approach to this problem must first be meticulously studied by the ocular histopathologist after surgery has been accomplished in primates. If, after an adequate trial with primates, the ocular histopathologist establishes this to be a safe and effective technique, then a conservative study should be undertaken wherein a number of humans will have this procedure done using different types of lenses by surgeons familiar with the lens and technique.