Retained lens fragments after complicated cataract
surgery will create a lens-induced immunogenic
response with variable inflammation. Symptom
onset is usually within 2 weeks after surgery,
although it has been reported as long as a year after
surgery [50]. Early referral to a retina surgeon for
possible secondary pars plana vitrectomy should be
considered to decrease risk of complications from
inflammation and elevated IOP [51]. Lastly, patients
with chronic uveitis have an increased risk for reactivation
of uveitis after cataract surgery and often
require more intensive topical corticosteroid or other
immunomodulatory therapy for control of
inflammation postoperatively [52].