Aphakic retinal detachment.

The incidence of aphakia in our series of retinal detachment is 14.82%. The incidence of retinal detachment in aphakia is 2.74%. The use of alpha-chymotrypsin does not influence this incidence. In our own patients, we did not find a sex predominance, although there was a predominance of the male sex in the referred group. The mean age of the patients affected by aphakic retinal detachment was 65.87 years and 82.6% of the cases occurred above the age of 56 years. There was no statistical significant difference between the right and the left eye involvement. Finally, 38.37% of the detachments appeared during the first year after the cataract extraction, 24.4% were myopic and 14.66% bilateral.