CLINICAL practice patterns of European and US cataract surgeons are becoming more similar, although some interesting and important differences continue to distinguish the two groups, according to David Leaming MD. Dr Leaming will present a comparison study of practice styles of European and American surgeons at the XXII Congress of the ESCRS in Paris. He will compare the responses of 964 US sur...

We read with interest the article by Esteve-Taboada et al.1 The authors measured the modulation transfer function (MTF) of three intraocular lenses (IOLs) using a corneal eye model with zero spherical aberration using monochromatic light. This means that corneal higher order aberrations and chromatic aberration were not taken into account for the evaluation, even though it has been shown that s...

presbyopia is a major refractive challenge for the coming decades. a variety of surgical procedures like scleral expansion, zonal photorefractive keratectomy, and corneal inlay implantation have been investigated none have yet gained popular acceptance. implantation of intraocular lenses (iols) at the time of cataract surgery or refractive lens exchange provides another opportunity to tackle th...