Correcting high astigmatism with piggyback toric intraocular lens implantation.

An 86-year-old man presented for cataract surgery with corneal astigmatism of 5.12 diopters (D). After cataract extraction with small-incision techniques, 2 toric plate-haptic silicone intraocular lenses (IOLs) were implanted in the capsular bag, each with a 3.