Foldable Artiflex phakic intraocular lens for the correction of myopia: two-year follow-up results of a prospective European multicenter study.

Objective: To evaluate the safety, efficacy, predictability, stability, and complications of the foldable Artiflex iris-fixated intraocular lens (Ophtec BV, Groningen, The Netherlands) for the correction of myopia in phakic eyes.

Design: Prospective, nonrandomized, open-label, multicenter trial.

Participants: Two hundred ninety eyes of 191 patients aged 18 to 60 years with average spherical equivalent of -7.

Results of cataract surgery after implantation of an iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens.

Purpose: To report the results of cataract surgery after previous implantation of an Artisan iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) for the correction of myopia.

Setting: University center and private practice.

Methods: This study comprised eyes with previous implantation of an iris-fixated pIOL to correct myopia and subsequent pIOL explantation combined with cataract surgery and in-the-bag implantation of a posterior chamber IOL.

Long-term study of Artisan phakic intraocular lens implantation for the correction of moderate to high myopia: ten-year follow-up results.

Purpose: To determine the long-term performance of the Artisan phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) for the correction of myopia.

Design: Long-term (10 years) retrospective follow-up study.

Participants: Eighty-nine eyes of 49 patients who underwent Artisan PIOL implantation for the correction of myopia.

Toric phakic intraocular lens for the correction of hyperopia and astigmatism.

Purpose: To evaluate the Artisan toric phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) for the correction of hyperopia and astigmatism.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Department of Ophthalmology, Sint Truiden, Belgium.

Methods: In this prospective study of 47 eyes of 28 patients with hyperopia and astigmatism, Artisan toric pIOLs were implanted between April 1999 and June 2004.

Biometry of phakic intraocular lens using Scheimpflug photography.

Purpose: To examine lateral and axial positioning of phakic intraocular lenses (IOLs) with iris fixation in the anterior chamber and to examine short-term stability of the IOL position.

Setting: The Netherlands Opthalmic Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Methods: Thirty patients participated in the study.

Implantation of Artisan toric phakic intraocular lenses for the correction of astigmatism and spherical errors in patients with keratoconus.

Purpose: To evaluate the correction of astigmatism and spherical ametropia in patients with keratoconus through implantation of an Artisan toric phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) (Ophtec, Groningen, The Netherlands).

Methods: Artisan toric PIOLs were implanted uneventfully in both eyes of three patients with keratoconus with clear central corneas and contact lens intolerance.

Results: Best spectacle-corrected subjective visual acuity after lens implantation was unchanged in one eye and improved in five eyes.

Effect of ophthalmic viscosurgical devices on lens epithelial cells: a morphological study.

Purpose: To investigate the morphological effects of Viscoat (sodium hyaluronate 3.0%-chondroitin sulfate 4.0%) on lens epithelial cells (LECs).

Toric phakic intraocular lens: European multicenter study.

Objective: To evaluate safety, efficacy, predictability, stability, complications, and patient satisfaction after implantation of Artisan toric phakic intraocular lenses (TPIOLs) for the correction of myopia or hyperopia with astigmatism.

Design: Prospective, nonrandomized, comparative (self-controlled) multicenter trial.

Participants: Seventy eyes of 53 patients (mean, 35 years; range, 22-59 years) with preoperative spherical equivalent between +6.

Trypan blue capsular staining to "find" the leading edge of a "lost" capsulorhexis.

Purpose: To describe an effective surgical technique to visualize an obscured leading edge of a capsulorhexis.

Design: Prospective, interventional case series.

Methods: In six eyes of six patients in which the capsulorhexis was started but could no longer be seen during surgery, the anterior chamber was irrigated to remove all viscoelastic, and 0.

Multicenter study of the Artisan phakic intraocular lens.

Purpose: To assess the Artisan intraocular lens to correct myopia in phakic eyes.

Setting: European multicenter study sponsored by Ophtec BV, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Methods: In this prospective multicenter clinical study, the Artisan lens was implanted in 518 eyes between September 1991 and October 1999.

Cytokeratin in lens epithelial cells and its effect on anterior lens capsule opacification.

Postoperative lens capsule opacification is a complication of extracapsular cataract extraction. To avoid this problem, we aspirated the epithelial cells lining the internal surface of the capsular bag. Anterior capsule specimens collected three and six years after the first surgical intervention (extracapsular cataract extraction with intercapsular implantation of a poly[methyl methacrylate] intraocular lens) and in vitro studies of epithelial cell cultures revealed the presence of intracellular and extracellular cytokeratin.

Small capsulotomy and great implant lens.

The envelope technique provokes in all cases a rupture of the zonules. With capsulorhexis, the advantages of working inside the envelope are lost, but the zonules are better protected. The capsulokleisis--or similar capsulotomies--combines the advantages of both systems.

Early results with the 8 mm and 9 mm HEMA disc intraocular lens.

This study presents our experience with 34 HEMA disc intraocular lenses implanted in the capsular bag. Despite the small number of cases and the relatively short mean postoperative follow-up of nine months, the results show a low incidence of uveitis and capsular fibrosis and excellent biocompatibility. The following complications were observed: four luxations of the 8 mm lens and one of the 9 mm lens in the anterior chamber.

Two-year postoperative results of Galand lens implantation.

The Galand lens is a closed J-loop implant for capsular-bag fixation. We present a retrospective study of 214 eyes implanted with this lens. Eyes were examined at three months, six months, one year, and two years after surgery.