presbyopia is a major refractive challenge for the coming decades. a variety of surgical procedures like scleral expansion, zonal photorefractive keratectomy, and corneal inlay implantation have been investigated none have yet gained popular acceptance. implantation of intraocular lenses (iols) at the time of cataract surgery or refractive lens exchange provides another opportunity to tackle th...

This paper continues the assessment of the long-term merits and problems of intraocular acrylic lenses which was started by a consideration of the value of the Binkhorst iris clip lens in aphakia by Pearce (I972). The reduced degree of aniseikonia and the better opportunity for binocular vision when uniocular aphakia is corrected by an intraocular lens implant was emphasized by Girard, Friedman...