Off-Label Use of Phakic Intraocular Lens with a “Piggyback” Technique

Piggyback intraocular lens implantation.

The piggyback method of implanting two intraocular lenses in one eye has been successfully expanded to address pseudophakic refractive error in normal eyes and eyes that have undergone post-penetrating keratoplasty. Piggyback implantation has been combined with the use of newly available minus-power lenses to provide appropriate power for a cataract patient with keratoconus, as well as to corre...

Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation

Lens vacuoles during phakic intraocular lens implantation

Lens damage during phakic intraocular lens implantation is a major complication. A case of a patient who developed lens vacuoles during toric implantable collamer lens (ICL) removal from her right eye and insertion of a new non-toric ICL due to persistent rotation of the former is presented in this work. As this event is very uncommon when implanting phakic intraocular lenses, the performed sur...

Toric phakic intraocular lens: European multicenter study.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate safety, efficacy, predictability, stability, complications, and patient satisfaction after implantation of Artisan toric phakic intraocular lenses (TPIOLs) for the correction of myopia or hyperopia with astigmatism. DESIGN Prospective, nonrandomized, comparative (self-controlled) multicenter trial. PARTICIPANTS Seventy eyes of 53 patients (mean, 35 years; range, 22-59 ...

Intracorneal ring segments and phakic intraocular lens.

To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Cakir and Utine1 regarding the results of combined intracorneal ring (KeraRing; Mediphacos Ltd, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and anterior chamber, iris-fi xated, phakic intraocular lens (IOL) (Artisan/Artifl ex; Ophtec BV, Groningen, The Netherlands) implantation in patients with keratectasia, which appeared in the February 2011 issue of the Journa...