Results of cataract extraction after implantable contact lens removal.

Purpose: To evaluate the visual results following insertion of implantable contact lenses (ICLs) in ametropic eyes and the development of subcapsular opacification with visual loss and to examine the anterior capsule, including the subcapsular tissue alteration, by light microscopy.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Schlosspark-Klinik, affiliated hospital of the Charité Berlin, Humbold University, Berlin, Germany.

Methods: A prospective noncomparative interventional case series of anterior subcapsular cataracts in 9 of 127 (7.

[Cataract extraction including posterior chamber lens implantation in the treatment of acute glaucoma].

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare phacoemulsification in eyes with angle-closure glaucoma to the partner eyes with or without iridectomy or laser iridotomy, respectively.

Methods: Twelve eyes with an elevated intraocular pressure due to an angle closure that were treated by phacoemulsification and IOL implantation were compared with 12 partner eyes with narrow angle and iridectomy or iridotomy without intraocular pressure elevation and cataract extraction. The average follow-up period was 15.

[Removal of epikeratophakia lenticules and implantation of intraocular lenses].

Two epikeratophakia lenticules were removed from a highly myopic eye after 13 years and from an aphakic eye after 15 years, respectively. After subsequent refraction compensation, the following results were achieved. Fixation of the epikeratophakia lenticules in the corneal tissue led to a change of the K-value following the removal of the corneal transplants.

Pupil diameter changes and reaction after posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens implantation.

Purpose: To compare the different aspects of pupil constriction before and after the implantation of an implantable contact lens (ICL).

Setting: Augenabteilung der Schlosspark-Klinik Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Methods: This study comprised 15 myopic and 9 hyperopic eyes that were evaluated before and after the implantation of an ICL using a compact integrated pupillograph (CIP, AMTech) under standardized conditions.

[Bioptic. A refractive surgery procedure for correction of high and extreme myopia].

Background: The complete correction of highly or extremely myopic eyes to emmetropia can only be achieved by very few procedures: The combination of implanting phacic intraocular lenses and the use of LASIK (laser in-situ keratomileusis) - Bioptic - makes it possible to achieve this goal to a great extent.

Patients And Methods: The Bioptic procedure was carried out on 17 eyes of 10 patients. Two weeks after corneal dissection with the Hansatom,an implantable phacic lens (STAAR) was introduced into the posterior chamber and 4 weeks later the residual myopia was treated with LASIK combined with the correction of astigmatic errors.