PURPOSE To compare refractive performance of Artisan (Ophtec, Groningen, The Netherlands) or Verisyse phakic intraocular lens and its foldable version, Artiflex (Ophtec), for the correction of moderately high myopia. DESIGN Randomized pilot study. METHODS setting: Institutional practice. patient population: Thirty-one patients with myopia that ranged from -6 to -14 diopters (D). interventio...

BACKGROUND We present two cases of transient vacuolar changes in the anterior subcapsular space of the crystalline lens in patients after posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens implantation. CASE PRESENTATION Implantable collamer lenses (ICL) were implanted in healthy myopic patients. Vacuolar changes developed just after the irrigating procedure through the narrow space between the ICL an...

The implantation of a phakic intraocular lens (IOL) for the correction of moderate or high myopia has theoretical advantages in comparison with corneal procedures and clear lens extraction, such as precision and stability not dependent on the corneal healing process, a wider range of correction, magnification of the intraocular image, and preservation of accommodation. However, these lenses hav...

PURPOSE To evaluate higher-order aberrations (HOAs) after implantation of Artiflex phakic intraocular lenses (pIOLs). SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. METHODS This retrospective comparative case series comprised 27 eyes (14 patients) that had Artiflex pIOL implantation and 22 eyes (13 patients) that had Artisan pIOL implantation...

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of a refractive phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) (PRL) to correct moderate to high myopia. SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, University Medicine Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS Uncorrected (UDVA) and corrected (CDVA) distance visual acuities, refraction, intraocular pressure, endothelial cel...

PURPOSE To evaluate the in vivo aberrometric performance of two phakic intraocular lenses (PIOLs); the Visian implantable contact lens (ICL) and the AcrySof Cachet PIOL. METHODS Thirty eight eyes from 29 patients with an age range of 23-32 years and more than 9 D of myopia were divided into two groups; one group of 20 eyes received a Visian ICL model V4c, another group of 18 eyes received an ...