Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For extremely nearsighted patients who are seeking independence from glasses and contact lenses, implantation of ...

May 3, 2012 (Chicago, Illinois) — Four- and 5-year data from second-eye implantation of the AcrySof Cachet phakic lens reveal stable and predictable refractive outcomes with excellent visual acuity.

Another refractive procedure that was thoroughly addressed at the meeting involved phakic IOLs. These are lenses that are placed in front of the natural crystalline lens in patients with large ...

BARCELONA – As the collective experience with refractive surgery grows, new certainties emerge, but at the same time new doubts are raised. And doubt in science is a potent stimulus to new research.

There’s nothing I love to write about more than people sticking things in my eye. Although I can just barely read their website through the tears, Verisyse new Phakic Intraocular Lens (IOL) appears to ...

CHICAGO -- Posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens (IOL) implantation safely and predictably improves visual acuity over 5 years in patients with high myopia or high myopic astigmatism who are not ...

Phakic IOL implantation, or the implantation of a lens where the natural, human lens still exists, is viewed by many surgeons as becoming an alternative refractive treatment method for myopia, ...

To evaluate the 5-year follow-up of safety, efficacy, predictability, stability, and complications of anterior iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation to correct high myopia, and ...

A phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) is a synthetic lens that can be implanted into the eye to correct nearsightedness (myopia). Phakic intraocular lenses (PIOL), which are made up of synthetic materials ...