Method of implanting an intraocular lens
AssigneeAMO Groningen B.V.
InventorsThomas Henricus Marie Terwee, Hendrick Albert Weeber, Patricia Ann Piers
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Abstract
A method for implanting an intraocular lens into the eye of a subject includes placing the intraocular lens into the eye of a subject and administering a drug in an amount sufficient to maintain an accommodative state of the eye. The method further includes permitting at least a portion of the intraocular lens to become coupled to at least a portion of the eye while maintaining the eye in the accommodative state. In certain embodiments, the method may include forming an intraocular lens while maintaining an accommodative state of the eye. In such embodiments, the method may exclude permitting at least a portion of the intraocular lens to become coupled to at least a portion of the capsular bag.
Claims6
A method of restoring the vision of an eye by removing an impaired lens and replacing the lens with a polymerizable fluid, comprising:
- determining a refractive outcome for an eye;
- measuring one or more dimensions of the eye selected from the group consisting of corneal curvature, axial length of the eye, and anterior chamber depth prior to injecting a lens material in order to estimate the total volume of a capsular bag of the eye;
- from the estimate of the total volume of the capsular bag, calculating a quantity and refractive index of a polymerizable fluid to be introduced into the capsular bag;
- removing an impaired lens from the capsular bag;
- selecting the polymerizable fluid with the calculated refractive index;
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- injecting the calculated quantity of polymerizable fluid into the capsular bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.