Session Title: Refractive
Session Date/Time: Sunday 17/02/2013 | 08:30-11:00
Paper Time: 08:48
Venue: Hall 3
First Author: : I.Pallikaris GREECE
Co Author(s): : D. Bouzoukis A. Limnopoulou S. Panagopoulou G. Kymionis
Purpose:
To investigate the visual outcomes and safety of the intracorneal lens FlexivueTM Micro-Lens (Presbia, CA, The Netherlands) for presbyopia, implanted using femtosecond laser (Intralase, AMO, Irvine, CA).
Setting:
Department of Ophthalmology, Vardinoyannion Eye Institute of Crete, Crete, Greece.
Methods:
The lens was implanted inside a corneal pocket created in the non-dominant eye of 45 emmetropic, presbyopic patients using femtosecond laser.
Results:
Mean uncorrected visual acuity for near increased from 20/100 to 20/25 and for distance decreased from 20/20 to 20/40 in the operated eye, whereas it remained stable binocularly. After surgery, 92% referred no use of reading glasses. No intra/post-operative complications were found.
Conclusions:
Intracorneal lenses for presbyopia are a safe, effective and reversible method to correct presbyopia in emmetropic patients aged 45 to 60 years old.
Financial Disclosure:
... research is funded, fully or partially, by a competing company
