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Lens fragment just 'complication'

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United Christian Hospital yesterday denied that a lens fragment found in the eye of a patient after undergoing a cataract operation meant there had been a blunder.

'It's a type of complication that there are retained lens fragments after a cataract operation. It's a known complication recorded in medical records,' Dr Joseph Lui Cho-ze, chief executive of the Kowloon East group of hospitals, said yesterday.

The 56-year-old patient underwent a cataract operation at the hospital on August 9.

His doctor did not discover the retained lens fragment when examined the patient on August 10 and 17. But he noticed a fragment smaller than 2mm in the patient's eye during a third consultation on August 31.

The hospital arranged another operation for the patient on September 2 to remove the fragment. The patient's eyesight had not been adversely affected.

Liu said leaving lens fragments after a cataract operation was not common, but sometimes the fragments were too small to be seen easily.

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