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.

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.

Implantation of spheric phakic posterior chamber intraocular lenses in astigmatic eyes.

Purpose: To evaluate the simultaneous correction of spherical and cylindrical ametropia through implantation of phakic posterior chamber (PC) intraocular lenses (IOLs) combined with a limbal incision.

Setting: Eye Department, Schlosspark-Klinik, Charité University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Methods: In 5 hyperopic and 7 myopic eyes with varying astigmatic measurements, a refractive correction was achieved by implanting phakic PC IOLs (Staar Surgical Co.