| (a) Eye muscle surgery.
(1) Additional treatment and/or surgery.
(2) Double vision.
(3) Partial or total blindness.
(b) Surgery for cataract with or without implantation
of intraocular lens.
(1) Complications requiring additional treatment and/or
surgery.
(2) Need for glasses or contact lenses.
(3) Complications requiring the removal of implanted
lens.
(4) Partial or total blindness.
(c) Retinal or vitreous surgery.
(1) Complications requiring additional treatment and/or
surgery.
(2) Recurrence or spread of disease.
(3) Partial or total blindness.
(d) Reconstructive and/or plastic surgical procedures
of the eye and eye region, such as blepharoplasty, tumor, fracture,
lacrimal surgery, foreign body, abscess, or trauma.
(1) Blindness.
(2) Nerve damage with loss of use and/or feeling to
eye or other areas of face.
(3) Painful or unattractive scarring.
(4) Worsening or unsatisfactory appearance.
(5) Dry eye.
(e) Photocoagulation and/or cryotherapy.
(1) Complications requiring additional treatment and/or
surgery.
(2) Pain.
(3) Partial or total blindness.
(f) Corneal surgery, such as corneal transplant, refractive
surgery and pterygium.
(1) Complications requiring additional treatment and/or
surgery.
(2) Pain.
(3) Need for glasses or contact lenses.
(4) Partial or total blindness.
(g) Glaucoma surgery by any method.
(1) Complications requiring additional treatment and/or
surgery.
(2) Worsening of the glaucoma.
(3) Pain.
(4) Partial or total blindness.
(h) Removal of the eye or its contents (enucleation
or evisceration).
(1) Complications requiring additional treatment and/or
surgery.
(2) Worsening or unsatisfactory appearance.
(3) Recurrence or spread of disease.
(i) Surgery for penetrating ocular injury, including
intraocular foreign body.
(1) Complications requiring additional treatment and/or
surgery.
(2) Possible removal of eye.
(3) Pain.
(4) Partial or total blindness.
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