Phakic posterior chamber intraocular lens for high myopia.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy, predictability, stability, and safety of the surgical correction of high myopia using a phakic posterior chamber intraocular lens (PPC IOL). SETTING: Centro Oftalmológico de Valencia-CEOVAL, Valencia, Venezuela. METHODS: A retrospective study was performed to analyze 18 eyes of 12 patients who had implantation of a modified PPC IOL, the implantable contact lens (ICL), for the treatment of high myopia. The target postoperative spherical equivalent (SE) refraction was emmetropia. RESULTS: The mean follow-up was 26.6 months +/- 11.3 (SD) (range 12 to 36 months). The mean preoperative SE was -15.27 +/- 3.47 diopters (D) (range -10.0 to -21.25 D) and the mean postoperative SE, -0.62 +/- 0.81 D (range -2.75 to +0.75 D). Eleven eyes (61.1%) had an SE within +/-1.00 D of emmetropia. The best spectacle-corrected visual acuity was maintained or improved in all except 1 eye, which lost more than 2 lines of Snellen visual acuity. Two eyes (11.1%) developed pupillary block the first day after surgery. Four eyes (22.2%) had moderate pigmentary dispersion. Two eyes (11.1%) had lens opacification, 1 with mild peripheral anterior capsule opacification and the other eye with central anterior subcapsular opacification. One eye (5.5%) had a significant decrease in anterior chamber depth after surgery. CONCLUSIONS: Implantation of an ICL was effective for the correction of high myopia. Predictability must be improved and the long-term safety of the ICL determined. The main concerns over potential cataract formation, pigmentary dispersion, and angle-closure glaucoma remain.

Refractive outcomes after bilateral multifocal intraocular lens implantation.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of bilateral multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) implantation after cataract surgery. SETTING: Oftalmológico de Valencia-CEOVAL, Valencia, Venezuela. METHODS: This retrospective study evaluated patient charts for the patient selection method, preoperative evaluation, surgical technique, postoperative visual and refractive outcomes, and complications. It included 70 eyes of 35 patients who had lens extraction with bilateral implantation of an Array multifocal IOL. Fourteen eyes of 7 patients had hyperopia with presbyopia, and 56 eyes of 28 patients had cataract. RESULTS: All eyes achieved an uncorrected distance acuity of 20/40 or better and an uncorrected near acuity of J5 or better. Six patients (18%) reported moderate halos, and 22 patients (63%) occasionally wore glasses. CONCLUSION: Bilateral multifocal IOL implantation was effective and safe in cataract and hyperopic patients with presbyopia, providing good uncorrected distance and near acuities.