Serial intraocular lens opacifications of different designs from the same manufacturer: Clinical and light microscopic results of 71 explant cases.

Purpose: To report clinical findings and light microscopic results of 71 opacified hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lenses (IOLs).

Setting: Vivantes Klinikum Neukoelln, Ophthalmology Department, Berlin, Germany.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Trabecular microbypass stents as minimally invasive approach after conventional glaucoma filtration surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate long-term efficacy and safety of 2 trabecular microbypass stents in patients with advanced primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and insufficient intraocular pressure (IOP) after previous filtration surgery.

Setting: Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln, Augenklinik, Berlin, Germany.

Design: Retrospective case series.

[Individualised correction of presbyopia by the use of phacoemulsification: monovision and multifocal lenses].

The cataract operation has transformed from a procedure for correcting spherical and astigmatic errors to one for correcting even presbyopia. Higher demands by the patients and more and more complex and individual lifestyle options need customised concepts of presbyopic correction, taking also into account comorbidities and neuroadaption. One concept for achieving this goal is multifocal lenses, undergoing a renaissance these days.

Biometric evaluation of keratoconic eyes with slit lamp-adapted optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To evaluate slit lamp-adapted optical coherence tomography for morphological imaging and morphometrical measurements in keratoconic eyes.

Methods: Using slit lamp-adapted optical coherence tomography, we examined 32 eyes of 20 consecutive patients with keratoconus and described morphological attributes of the cornea. Furthermore, in a subgroup of 19 eyes, we measured morphometrical values of the cornea and compared these values with those of an age-matched control group of 19 normal eyes.

Significance of the riboflavin film in corneal collagen crosslinking.

Purpose: To evaluate the role of the preocular riboflavin film in ultraviolet-A (UVA) absorption in corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL).

Setting: Eye Laser Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany.

Methods: The absorption of UVA light was measured in human donor and porcine postmortem corneas with and without riboflavin film using 3 solutions: standard dextran-riboflavin, methylcellulose-riboflavin, and hypoosmolar riboflavin-sodium chloride without dextran.