Piggy back intraocular lens for the correction of buckling surgery-induced refractive error in pseudophakia.

A 29-year-old man presented to us with bilateral pseudophakia with suboptimal vision in right eye. His uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) on Snellen's chart was 6/36 and 6/9 in right eye (OD) and left eye (OS), respectively. It improved to 6/9 OD with -5.00DS/-0.50DC at 90° and 6/6 OS with -0.5DC at 100°. He had undergone buckling surgery 1 year back for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in right eye and subsequently developed a myopic refractive error. A spherical piggyback intraocular lens (IOL; Rayner Sulcoflex, East Sussex) was implanted in the sulcus for refractive correction. The postoperative UDVA at 4 weeks was 6/6p. The intraocular pressure was normal and there was no significant endothelial cell loss. Piggyback IOLs can be an effective tool to correct the induced refractive error due to an increase in axial length following buckling surgery.