Methods of implanting an intraocular lens
AssigneePharmacia Groningen BV
InventorsThomas Henricus Marie Terwee, Hendrick Albert Weeber, Patricia Ann Piers
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Abstract
The vision of an eye having an impaired lens is stored with an artificial lens implant. The method involves replacing the lens by a polymerizable material injected into the emptied lens capsule and thereby providing a new lens implant with a predetermined refractive value, while admitting the possibility of controlling and adjusting the refractive value of the eye during the surgical process.
Claims36
A method of restoring the vision of an eye by removing an impaired lens from the capsular bag and replacing said lens with a quantity of a polymerizable fluid, comprising the consecutive steps of:
- (a) determining a desired refractive outcome value suitable for the eye;
- (b) introducing the polymerizable fluid into the capsular bag;
- (c) determining the refractive value of the eye;
- (d) comparing the refractive values of steps (a) and (c);
- (e) adjusting the refractive value of the eye to comply with the value obtained in step (a);
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- (f) forming a lens implant from the polymerizable fluid providing the eye substantially with the refractive value determined in step (a).
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