purpose: to evaluate the predictability, efficacy, and safety of iris-claw artisanô phakic intraocular lenses ­for myopia. methods: through a prospective clinical study, 35 eyes of 21 patients with myopia from -5 to 26.5 diopters underwent implantation of the artisan lens. patients were examined 1, 3, and 7 days (all eyes); 1 month (28 eyes), 3 months (29 eyes), and 6 months (32 eyes) after the...

purpose: to evaluate the safety, efficacy, stability and predictability of posterior chamber collagen copolymer phakic intraocular lens (piol) implantation to correct myopia and myopic astigmatism in keratoconus-affected patients. methods: uncorrected (ucva) and best-corrected (bcva) distance visual acuity, refraction and complications were evaluated in 22 keratoconic eyes of 14 patients who un...

purpose: to compare visual outcomes and surgical complications of three phakic intraocular lenses (piols); artisan, artiflex and the implantable collamer lens (icl) for correction of moderate to high myopia. methods: in this historical cohort study, 112 myopic eyes that were operated between 2005 and 2010 and implanted with one of these three piols were evaluated (artisan 40 eyes, artiflex 36 e...

This 30-year-old patient had a high myopia and with-the-rule astigmatism. Her best-corrected-visual-acuity was 20/20 with -6.75 -2.50 x 10. cornea an asymmetric bowtie, we were concerned laser vision correction. We then decided to implant toric phakic intraocular lens (Visian ICL® toric) and, 1 week after surgery, she J1 uncorrected. Note the central anterior vaulting of away from crystalline l...

purpose: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the artisan phakic intraocular lens (piol) for the correction of high myopia. methods: in this prospective study of 22 eyes of 14 patients with high myopia, artisan piols (ophtec bv) were implanted. uncorrected visual acuity (ucva), best corrected visual acuity (bcva), refraction, astigmatism, safety, and predictability were analyzed. results: the...

Both choroidal neovascularization during pregnancy, and choroidal neovascularization following implantation of phakic intraocular lenses have been reported in the literature. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported of a gravid woman developing choroidal neovascularization in an eye with a phakic intraocular lens. A 31-year-old woman became aware of her pregnancy three weeks after plac...

OBJECTIVE To investigate iris perfusion in patients with and without pupil ovalization after phakic intraocular lens implantation. METHODS Comparative retrospective randomized case series of 6 participants, each with a regular pupil, and 6 participants with pupil ovalization after phakic intraocular lens implantation for high myopia were included in the study. Indocyanine green angiography wa...

PURPOSE To evaluate efficacy, predictability, and safety of Artisan toric phakic intraocular lens (Ophtec, Groningen, The Netherlands) implantation for the correction of astigmatism higher than 2 diopters. DESIGN Interventional case series. METHODS This prospective study included 27 eyes of 16 patients with a mean preoperative spherical equivalent of -11.78 +/- 6.24 diopters and a mean preo...

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...