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    An intraocular lens (IOL) is a lens implanted in the eye usually as part of a treatment for cataracts or for correcting other vision problems such as near-sightedness...
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    A phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) is an intraocular lens that is implanted surgically into the eye to correct refractive errors without removing the natural...
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  • Multifocal and accommodating intraocular lenses are artificial intraocular lenses (IOLs) that are designed to provide focus of both distance and near objects...
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    eye's natural lens is usually replaced with an artificial intraocular lens (IOL) implant. Over time, metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibres lead...
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  • The aim of an accurate intraocular lens power calculation is to provide an intraocular lens (IOL) that fits the specific needs and desires of the individual...
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  • Intraocular lens scaffold, or IOL scaffold technique, is a surgical procedure in ophthalmology. In cases where the posterior lens capsule is ruptured...
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  • Rayner designs and manufactures intraocular lenses and proprietary injection devices for use in cataract surgery. With Sir Harold Ridley, they were pioneers...
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    intraocular lens or glued IOL is a surgical technique for implantation, with the use of biological glue, of a posterior chamber IOL (intraocular lens)...
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  • 2001) was an English ophthalmologist who invented the intraocular lens and pioneered intraocular lens surgery for cataract patients. Nicholas Harold Lloyd...
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  • Angle-supported intraocular lenses are a special kind of intraocular lens that can be implanted surgically into the anterior chamber of the eye. These lenses are...
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  • Iris-fixated intraocular lens is an intraocular lens that is implanted surgically into the eye and attached to the iris. Originally developed for aphakia...
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  • Thumbnail for Lens (vertebrate anatomy)
    lens are easily modified Medical portal Accommodation reflex Crystallin Evolution of the eye, for how the lens evolved Intraocular lenses Iris Lens capsule...
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    ultrasonic energy required is moderate, and insertion of foldable intraocular prosthetic lenses, which take advantage of the small incision possible. It is...
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    the clouded lens is removed through an opening made in the anterior lens capsule. The intraocular lens is then inserted into the lens capsule which...
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  • followed by an intraocular lens implantation. In patients requiring only distance vision correction, a conventional mono-focal intraocular lens is placed in...
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  • of cataract surgery, caused by intraocular lens subluxation or dislocation. The chafing of mispositioned intraocular lens over iris, ciliary body or iridocorneal...
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    Toric intraocular lenses probably provide a better outcome with respect to astigmatism in these cases than limbal relaxing incisions. Toric intraocular lenses...
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    short distance in front of the eye. Contact lenses are worn directly on the surface of the eye. Intraocular lenses are surgically implanted most commonly after...
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  • in patients with yellow tinted intraocular lenses compared with vision in patients with non-tinted intraocular lenses". British Journal of Ophthalmology...
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    crystalline lens is replaced with a synthetic intraocular lens (IOL). The IOL may be designed to filter out equal, more or less UV light than the natural lens (have...
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    Toric lenses are used primarily in eyeglasses, contact lenses and intraocular lenses to correct astigmatism. A torus is the surface of revolution resulting...
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    hypermetropia due to absence of lens (aphakia) is best corrected using intraocular lens implantation.[citation needed] Refractive lens exchange (RLE): A variation...
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    thin corneas which cannot be treated with LASIK or PRK, the phakic intraocular lens is an alternative. As of 2018, roughly 9.5 million Americans have had...
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    Cataract (category Disorders of lens)
    cataractous lens is removed and replaced with an artificial lens, known as an intraocular lens, which stays in the eye permanently. Intraocular lenses are usually...
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    corrective lens, contact lens, eyeglasses, intraocular lens.) Most lenses used for other purposes have strict axial symmetry; eyeglass lenses are only approximately...
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    improvements in techniques for cataract removal and developments in intraocular lens (IOL) replacement technology, in implantation techniques, and in IOL...
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  • ophthalmic pathologist who conducted research on the pathology of intraocular lens complications as well as ophthalmic surgery in general. He was a medical...
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  • "Ocular dominance and patient satisfaction after monovision induced by intraocular lens implantation". Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. 30 (4):...
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    used to contain and position the intraocular lens implant (IOL). The removal of the central part of the anterior lens capsule during cataract surgery is...
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    AK, Liekfeld A, Gonnermann J (July 2013). "Posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens to correct myopia: long-term follow-up". Journal of Cataract and Refractive...
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