The aim of this study was to examine the fate of the lens material that
remains in the eye after an extracapsular cataract extraction both with and
without insertion of an intraocular lens. Apart from this, the development of
precipitates on the intraocular lenses was morphologically investigated in
order to get a better understanding of the interactions between eye and
intraocular lens.
This thesis is divided into a first part covering animal experiments and a
second part about morphological studies on human material, i.e. autopsy
eyes or explanted intraocular lenses. For obvious reasons it is nearly impossible
to obtain human eyes after a short implantation time. Therefore in
order to study the early events I had to turn to an animal model. Between
these two parts we have summarized our data on human anterior lens capsules
obtained from extracapsular cataract extractions
