IOL Exchange: Acrysof for Crystalens

This 69 year old man has previously undergone hyperopic lasik, followed by cataract surgery,

followed by hyperopic lasik again, in attaempt to achieve his original goal of spectacle

independence. He was still unhappy with bot hte quality of his vision and had been told at

the time of his cataract surgery in 2006 that presbyopic correction did not exist. This is

an acrysoft wave front IOL, implanted in an eye with already significant negative spherical

aberration.

I am going to explant this and replace it with a non wavefront accomodating IOL.
The edge of the capsule is teased off of the optic with a fine tipped sinskey hook, followed

by viscodissetion with the Chang Hydrodissection cannula.

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Education

Tags:

• IOL
• Lens
• Implant
• cataract
• correcting
• lens
• implant

[kodiak1966]

I had the acrysof IQ SN60WF...21.0 D put in 2.5 weeks ago. Distance vision was restored,need glasses for reading...nornal,the only thing is on the left side of eye(incision side),I keep seeing a kind of glare,distortion(driving me crazy).Am I seeing the side of lens?Am I seeing the incision?Am I seeing liquid still in the eye? Will this go away.I put sun glases on and it all goes away,If i put reading glases on and it all goes away...hmmm? Any info greatly appreciated.Surgeon on vacation....