Consider Light Adjustable Lens in patients with high expectations
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TAMPA, Fla. — The Light Adjustable Lens is an option for patients with difficult personalities, especially when surgeons take the time to set reasonable expectations, according to a presenter here.
“We found in our study that 34% of patients who had perfect surgery still were unhappy either because of the quality of vision or unreasonable expectations,” Kendall E. Donaldson, MD, MS, said at the Telling It Like It Is meeting. “I think the Light Adjustable Lens provides us with a really nice alternative in these patients as long as we set reasonable expectations.”
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According to Donaldson, patients with neuroticism as a personality trait “tend to do poorer and have a bad experience with cataract surgery, so we really have to watch out for personalities.”
Patients with high expectations who may need the ability to adjust postoperatively and those who want to avoid common diffractive optic side effects found with other IOL options often make great candidates for the Light Adjustable Lens (RxSight).
The lens provides patients with more near vision while still maintaining distance vision. Donaldson said two times as many patients achieve 20/20 and maintain a high-quality, larger range of vision with the Light Adjustable Lens.
“I think with these new IOLs that we have, we are able to provide some of these complex patients more options to get them where they want to be to maintain high-quality vision and extend their range of vision,” she said.
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Donaldson KE. Premium IOLs in complex cases. Presented at: Telling It Like It Is 2023; Feb. 15-19, 2023; Tampa, Florida.
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