What is it about?
Differences in visual acuity, refractive outcomes, and higher order aberrations – total, corneal, and internal – were evaluated at 1 month and 1 year postoperatively between two groups of patients: The first group had standard phacoemulsification, while the second group had femtosecond laser-assisted surgery, and both groups were implanted with toric IOLs, either monofocal or multifocal.
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Why is it important?
Patients who underwent uncomplicated lens surgery with toric IOLs in both the groups had comparable refractive outcomes in terms of visual acuity and residual refraction at 1 year. The femto group had significantly lower internal vertical coma at 1 year.
Perspectives
To our knowledge, this is the first study looking exclusively at toric IOL outcomes with FLACS and no study until now has reported the residual refractive astigmatism after toric IOL implantation with laser cataract surgery.
Arnaldo Espaillat
Espaillat Cabral Eye Institute
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This page is a summary of: Clinical outcomes using standard phacoemulsification and femtosecond laser-assisted surgery with toric intraocular lenses, Clinical Ophthalmology, March 2016, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s102083.
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