Visual rehabilitation with secondary intraocular lens implantation in a case of hallermann–streiff syndrome

Abstract

Hallermann–Streiff syndrome (HSS) is a rare congenital disorder with multiple abnormalities mainly affecting face, skull, hair, eyes, and teeth. We report a case of an 18-year-old Indian girl with HSS having typical physical features and ophthalmological manifestations. She had been operated for bilateral congenital cataract in her infancy, and since then, she had been aphakic in both eyes. She had poor vision in the right eye and irreversible blindness in the left eye. She underwent scleral-fixated (glued) intraocular lens implantation in the right eye with good visual recovery.

Keywords

• Glued intraocular lens
• Hallermann–Streiff syndrome
• scleral-fixated intraocular lens