Refractive and Visual Outcome of Misaligned Toric Intraocular Lens After Operative Realignment.

Purpose: The study was performed to evaluate the refractive and visual outcome of patients with misaligned toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) after operative realignment, with and without back-calculation of the toric axis after implantation of the IOL.

Design: Institutional, retrospective case-control study.

Methods: This is a retrospective case series of 39 patients who underwent a second operation to realign a misaligned toric IOL from August 2013 to December 2019 at the Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.