NEODYMIUM - YAG LASER DISCISSION OF POSTOPERATIVE PUPILLARY MEMBRANE - PERIPHERAL PHOTODISRUPTION

Eight eyes in six consecutive Caucasian women who developed postoperat ive pupillary membrane in tile visual axis were treated with a neodymi um:YAG (Nd:YAG) laser using a peripheral quadrantic disruption techniq ue. AII patients had outpatient cataract extraction with or without tr abeculectomy under local anesthesia. One patient had penetrating kerat oplasty. In all cases, the pupillary membrane disappeared. Visual acui ty improved to 6/6 except in two eyes, one in a patient with Down's sy ndrome, making it difficult to assess best corrected visual acuity, an d the other in a patient with myopic macular changes. No significant c omplications occurred.