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New Term Glistening: Acrylic foldable IOL's the paper says AAO New Orleans supplement
I found an article by William Trattler called Glistenings visually relevant. Of which I cannot find the website now. But in it "The AcrySof Lens material (Alcon) is particularly susceptible to glistenings. Incidence rates have published ranging between 11% to 60%. Waite and colleagues not glistenings might impact high spatial resolution contrast sensitivity.
The rates seem low to me. How about you?
I found an article by William Trattler called Glistenings visually relevant. Of which I cannot find the website now. But in it "The AcrySof Lens material (Alcon) is particularly susceptible to glistenings. Incidence rates have published ranging between 11% to 60%. Waite and colleagues not glistenings might impact high spatial resolution contrast sensitivity.
The rates seem low to me. How about you?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
This is not new news. The glistenings were reported with the Acryosof Alcon IOL in the mid and late 90's. It is NOT clinicallly significant and is NOT the reason for night blindness, flare, rays, halos and other dysphotopsia.
It is the design of the IOL that creates the many problems of multifocal IOLs.
JCH MD
It is the design of the IOL that creates the many problems of multifocal IOLs.
JCH MD
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