pseudophakic
A medical term used to describe an eye that has already had cataract surgery and now contains a plastic or “pseudo” lens implant. Compare this to the term “phakic” (an eye that contains its natural lens) or “aphakic” (an eye that has no lens at all).
A patient states allergy to lidocaine that caused a circle of cysts around each injection site where a mole was removed. During cataract surgery, a lidocaine injection is done inside the eye, lidocaine drops outside the eye. Is this the cause of cystotic macula edema? It seems that the allergy to lidocaine dooms this patient to cystotic macula edema after cataract surgery, with treatments of long-term eye injections.
Can lidocaine inside the eye be avoided?