[Pathological cataracts in systemic diseases].
PURPOSE: To show the physiopathological mechanisms which determines the appearance of the pathological cataract and types of cataract and clinical manifestations of the systemic disease and operative complications. METHOD: Retrospective study that includes 22 patients hospitalized in clinic with pathological cataract diagnosis, appeared in following systemic disease: diabetes mellitus, skin disease, endocrine disease, SNC disease. RESULTS: Generally the patients had posterior subcapsular cataract or nuclear and posterior subcapsular cataract with fast evolution to intumescent cataract. Phacoemulsification with IOLCP performed at all patients. Good evolution and not surgery complications. CONCLUSIONS: The difficult of the surgery was connected with the risk of the posterior capsular break ( the majority cases were soft cataract) and also connected with the capsulorhexis making in intumescent cataracts. The post surgery evolution was not different compared with a usually cataract.