Patient outcomes following implantation with a trifocal toric IOL: twelve-month prospective multicentre study.

Purpose: To evaluate clinical outcomes with a premium diffractive-refractive trifocal toric intraocular lens (IOL) over a 12-month period.

Methods: Multicentre prospective clinical trial including 227 eyes of 114 patients undergoing cataract surgery with bilateral implantation of the AT LISA tri toric 939MP IOL (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany). One patient was implanted unilaterally.

Comparison of the performance and safety of 2 ophthalmic viscosurgical devices in cataract surgery.

Purpose: To compare the clinical performance and safety of 2 ophthalmic viscosurgical devices (OVDs)-Twinvisc (OVD 1) and Duovisc (OVD 2)-in cataract surgery.

Setting: European multicenter study.

Design: Prospective randomized controlled study.

[ETHICAL ASPECTS OF INFORMED CONSENT IN REFRACTIVE SURGERY].

With the introduction of the use of Laser assisted surgery, refractive eye surgery knows a very large success. Surgery of well being, it requires that an extensive information is delivered to the patient concerning the benefit and possible side-effects of the available treatments. This information process may reduce the frequency of negligence claims relating to Laser eye surgery.

[Recent advances in the treatment of presbyopia].

Everyone will experience presbyopia between the age of 45 and 50 years. The classical solution to help these patients is to offer spectacles or multifocal contact lenses. Recent developments in corneal or intraocular surgery may provide new solutions for selected patients to prevent them from always wearing glasses to read.

[Overview of a decade of advances in ophtalmology].

This review summarizes the most important advances that occurred in ophthalmology during the last decade, with a focus on corneal pathology, cataract surgery, glaucoma and retinal diseases.