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Piggybacking can be useful for refractive enhancement
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FLORENCE, Italy — Piggybacking IOLs can still be a viable option for improving patients’ vision, according to one surgeon.
“Now that problems with intralenticular membranes have been solved by placing one lens in the sulcus and one in the capsular bag, piggybacking can be reintroduced for several refractive enhancement procedures,” said Richard Packard, MD, speaking here at the Florence Symposium.
Novel uses of piggybacking include the addition of a multifocal lens for a pseudophakic patient, he said.
“This option offers those implanted with monofocal IOLs the chance of multifocality, restoring spectacle-free reading capabilities,” Dr. Packard noted.
The Alcon AcrySof ReStor apodized diffractive IOL will soon be available for this use, Dr. Packard said.
He presented this in formation in a session at the Florence Symposium, the Joint Meeting of Ocular Surgery News, the Italian Association of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the Italian Society of Ophthalmology.