Background: Implantable Phakic Contact Lenses have been developed as a cost-effective alternative to Visian Collamer lenses for refractive correction. Aim of the work: evaluate central vault implantable phakic contact lens (IPCL) and its correlation horizontal white (WTW) corneal diameter using anterior segment optical coherence tomography. Patients Methods: 30 eyes that match inclusion criteri...

We present a patient with marginal corneal degeneration and corneal astigmatism of more than 10.0 diopters (D). A toric phakic intraocular lens (IOL) of 7.0 D cylindrical power was implanted in both eyes to correct the high astigmatism. An uncorrected visual acuity of 20/40 was achieved in both eyes, and the best corrected visual acuity improved by 4 Snellen lines to 20/20 in both eyes. Refract...

We report the refractive correction of high astigmatism in one eye of a 23-year-old woman following deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) using an Artisan iris-fixated, toric, phakic intraocular lens (IOL). One year after implantation, uncorrected and corrected distance visual acuities were both 20/25, refraction was -1.00 D cylinder, and the endothelial cell count was 1827 cells/mm(2). Ir...

PURPOSE To examine possible differences in clinical outcomes between pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) and scleral buckling (SB) for uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD). DESIGN Meta-analysis. PARTICIPANTS Adult patients with uncomplicated RRD from previously reported randomized controlled trials of PPV and SB. METHODS A comprehensive literature search using the Cochrane Collab...

IMPORTANCE Whether pseudophakic eyes are resistant to trabeculectomy remains unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of previous phacoemulsification on surgical success of trabeculectomy with mitomycin C for open-angle glaucoma. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective clinical cohort study at Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan, among patients 55 years or older having ope...