Most common complication after lens extraction persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous is:

Ans. c. Vitreous hemorrhage In Kanski, Yanoffs, Parsons and Khurana, both vitreous hemorrhage and retinal detachment are mentioned as complications of surgery in persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous. Incidence of these two complcations is not mentioned clearly Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous (PHPV) Persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous (PHPV) also known as persistent fetal vasculature (PFV). PHPV is a pathologic entity resulting from abnormal persistence of the fetal fibrovascular primitive stroma (hyaloid system) of the eye which should disappear by the time of bih. The primary vitreous forms around the seventh week of life and begins involuting by 20 weeks. Persistence and hyperophy of these vessels can result in PHPV in the anterior and/or posterior chambers The typical imaging findings of posterior PHPV include the demonstration of Cloquet's canal and a small eye.