UNLABELLED The study shows a promising next-generation surgical option for the correction of moderate to high ametropia. Hole implantable collamer lens (ICL), STAAR Surgical, is a posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens with a central artificial hole. As yet, however, no long-term comparison of the clinical results of the implantation of ICLs with and without such a hole has hitherto been con...

To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Cakir and Utine1 regarding the results of combined intracorneal ring (KeraRing; Mediphacos Ltd, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and anterior chamber, iris-fi xated, phakic intraocular lens (IOL) (Artisan/Artifl ex; Ophtec BV, Groningen, The Netherlands) implantation in patients with keratectasia, which appeared in the February 2011 issue of the Journa...

The purpose of this review is to summarize relevant data from publications appearing in the peer-reviewed scientific literature over the past decade since US Food and Drug Administration approval of the implantable collamer lens (ICL), and, in particular, to review studies relating to sizing methodology, safety, and effectiveness, as well as more recent studies reporting clinical outcomes of th...

PURPOSE To use the techniques of survival analysis to analyze the incidence of anterior subcapsular opacities (symptomatic and asymptomatic) and clinically significant cataract in the US Food and Drug Administration clinical trial of the Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL). METHODS Five hundred twenty-six eyes were followed for an average of 4.7 years; 89% (468 eyes), 73% (384 eyes), and 5...