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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 165-166 |
Pseudophakic hyperopia in nanophthalmic eyes managed by a posterior chamber implantable collamer lens
Kulin J Kothari, Prakash R Nayak, Bijal K Mehta
Department of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Bombay City Eye Institute and Research Centre, 5 Babulnath Road, Mumbai - 400 007, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Kulin J Kothari
Bombay City Eye Institute and Research Centre, 5 Babulnath Road, Mumbai - 400 007, Maharashtra
India
DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.77014 PMID: 21350293
We report a case of a bilateral posterior chamber implantable collamer lens (ICL) implantation post-clear lens extraction, to reduce the residual hyperopia, in a patient with nanophthalmic eyes. A 30-year-old female patient, keen to reduce her dependency on glasses and contact lenses, came to our refractive surgery department. Her refractive error was +12.0 and +12.5 diopters in the right and left eye, respectively, with steep corneas on keratometry and a shallow anterior chamber depth. She underwent clear lens extraction with implantation of +35.0 D and +40.0 D IOL in the right eye and left eye, respectively. Her post-operative best-corrected visual acuity was 20/30 with +8.5 D in the right eye and +6 D in the left. She underwent bilateral ICL implantation. Postoperatively after 6 months, her unaided visual acuity was 20/30 in both eyes. In conclusion, ICL implantation can be considered to correct residual hypermetropic ametropia in pseudophakic eyes when other options have limitations.
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