Intraocular Lens

LensGen has received approval for an investigational device exemption from the FDA, paving the way for a pivotal study of the Juvene IOL, according to a company press release.

NEW ORLEANS — The $210 billion spent annually on global vision correction suggests potential growth for refractive surgery, according to a speaker.

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.

NEW ORLEANS — When considering an anterior chamber IOL as an option for patients who lack capsular support, there are four considerations that can guide the decision-making process, according to a speaker here.

NEW ORLEANS — According to Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, refractive cataract surgery is a win for patients, society, ophthalmologists and industry alike.

Patients with primary open-angle glaucoma who undergo cataract surgery have an opportunity to have both phacoemulsification with IOL implantation and a glaucoma procedure performed at the same sitting.

NEW YORK – Certain IOLs are better suited to sutured or sutureless secondary IOL implantation techniques in aphakic eyes, according to a presenter at OSN New York Retina.

A careful slit lamp microscope examination of the eye during the preoperative consultation can pick up most cases of compromised zonular support.

Uncorrected astigmatism degrades quality of vision in the phakic and pseudophakic eye.

It is not necessary in every case that patients with irregular astigmatism should be denied the benefits of new technology IOLs, or NTIOLs.