Impact of personality characteristics on patient satisfaction after multifocal intraocular lens implantation: results from the "happy patient study".

Purpose: This prospective multicenter study assessed personality characteristics that may influence patient satisfaction after implantation of multifocal intraocular lenses (MIOLs).

Methods: One hundred eighty-three patients who underwent bilateral implantation of different MIOLs were enrolled. Uncorrected and corrected distance visual acuity for distance and near (ie, UDVA, UNVA, CDVA, and CNVA) were assessed preoperatively and 3 and 6 months after implantation.

Photolysis using the Dodick-ARC laser system for cataract surgery.

Purpose: To report the intraoperative and postoperative results of cataract surgery using a pulsed Q-switched neodymium:YAG (Nd:YAG) laser.

Setting: Eye Clinic, Kreiskrankenhaus Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

Methods: This prospective study involved 100 consecutive patients who had cataract surgery between October 1998 and May 1999.

Paracentral photoablations to correct higher grades of naturally occurring astigmatism.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of paracentral ablations in treating higher degrees of naturally occurring myopic and hyperopic astigmatism.

Setting: Augenklinik, Kreiskrankenhaus Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

Methods: Twenty-five eyes (7 with hyperopia, 18 with myopia) with naturally occurring corneal astigmatism greater than 1.