• Angle-supported intraocular lenses are a special kind of intraocular lens that can be implanted surgically into the anterior chamber of the eye. These...
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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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    Three types of phakic IOLs are available: Angle-supported Iris-fixated Sulcus-supported intraocular lens LASIK can correct myopia up to -12 to -14 D...
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    Glaucoma (redirect from Open angle glaucoma)
    with chronic closed-angle glaucoma, lens extraction can relieve the block created by the pupil and help regulate the intraocular pressure. A study found...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Nagalekshmi, S.V.; Singh, S. (June 2017). "Glued intraocular lens implantation for eyes with inadequate capsular support: Analysis of the postoperative visual outcome"...
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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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    amount of light entering the interior of the eye; then another lens (the crystalline lens) that accomplishes the remaining focusing of light into images;...
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    significant, surgical removal of the lens may be warranted, with lost optical power usually replaced with a plastic intraocular lens. Owing to the high prevalence...
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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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  • corrective lenses worn on the face a short distance in front of the eye. Contact lenses are worn directly on the surface of the eye. Intraocular lenses are surgically...
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    62 Osm = 304 Ascorbic acid Glutathione Immunoglobulins Maintains the intraocular pressure and inflates the globe of the eye. It is this hydrostatic pressure...
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    front structures of the eye—often because these are tangled in an intraocular lens or other structures. Pars plana vitrectomy is a general term for a...
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    cataract surgery and also intraocular tumours. Common treatments are designed according to the type (open-angle or angle-closure) and the underlying...
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    cataract surgery, for peripheral iridotomy in patients with chronic and acute angle-closure glaucoma, where it has largely superseded surgical iridectomy, for...
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    different angles. When observed, separately by each eye, the pairs of images induced a clear sense of depth. By contrast, a telephoto lens—used in televised...
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  • allowing the eye lens to flatten, making it thinner. The kinesthetic sensations of the contracting and relaxing ciliary muscles (intraocular muscles) are...
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    burns, are medical emergencies, as they can lead to severe scarring and intraocular damage. People with chemically induced conjunctivitis should not touch...
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    it is used in the manufacture of rigid intraocular lenses which are implanted in the eye when the original lens has been removed in the treatment of cataracts...
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  • keratomileus (LASIK). The Alpins Method is also used to plan cataract/toric intraocular lens (IOL) surgical procedures. The Alpins Method uses vector mathematics...
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    the result that diseases of the iris often have important effects on intraocular pressure and indirectly on vision. The iris along with the anterior ciliary...
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    correcting lens. An eye which is accompanied by a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater...
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  • open-angle glaucoma by reducing intraocular pressure (IOP), the only known modifiable risk factor for glaucoma. NEI has supported several studies, including:...
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    protease thus causing a false result. Smart lenses have been developed to record intraocular pressure. The lens conforms to the eyeball and contains sensors...
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    used to replace the vitreous humor following vitrectomy, silicone intraocular lenses following cataract extraction, silicone tubes to keep a nasolacrimal...
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      A group based in the University of Vienna described measurement of intraocular distance using both tunable laser and spectrometer-based interferometry...
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    common sight disorders, especially for determining the power of an intraocular lens after cataract extraction.[citation needed] B-scan ultrasonography...
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