2. Phakic IOLs
Artificial lenses implanted in the anterior or
posterior chamber of the eye in the presence of the
natural crystalline lens to correct refractive errors
3. Limitations of laser refractive surgery
- high ametropia
- irreversibility
- permanent damage to cornea
4. History
1889
- Clear lens extraction for the correction of myopia
- Fukala in Austria/Germany : “Fukala Surgery”
- abandoned due to complications
1950s
- correcting myopia by inserting a concave
lens into the phakic eye
1988
- Baikoff : anterior chamber angle-fixed IOL
Mid 1980s
- Posterior chamber phakic IOLs : Fyodorov
1991
- Artisan-Worst iris claw lens
9. Indications
Stable refraction (less than 0.5D change for 6months)
Clear crystalline lens
Ametropia not suitable/appropriate for excimer laser surgery
Unsatisfactory vision with/intolerance of contact lenses or spectacles
Anterior chamber depth greater than or equal to
- 3.2mm for the iris-claw lens and angle-supported
PIOLs
- 2.5mm for posterior chamber PIOLs
A minimum endothelial cell density of
- ≥3500 cells/mm2 at 21years of age
- ≥2800 cells/mm2 at 31years of age
- ≥2200 cells/mm2 at 41years of age
- ≥2000 cells/mm2 at 45years of age or more
No ocular pathology (corneal disorders, glaucoma, uveitis,
maculopathy, etc.)
10. Advantages
Large range of myopic, hyperopic, and astigmatic
refractive error
Allows the crystalline lens to retain its function
preserving accommodation
Excellent visual and refractive results (induces less
coma and spherical aberration than LASIK)
Removable and exchangeable
Frequently improve BCVA in myopic eyes by eliminating
minification effect of glasses
Results are predictable and stable
Flat learning curve
11. Disadvantages
Potential risks of an intraocular procedure
Nonfoldable models require large incision that may
result in high postoperative astigmatism
Highly ametropic patients may require additional
photorefractive surgery (“Bioptics”)
May cause irreversible damage to natural lens
and corneal endothelium
Implantation in hyperopic patients can be followed
by loss of BSCVA due to loss of magnification
effect of glasses
12. IOL power calculation
Phakic anterior chamber (AC) lens
- central corneal curvature (power) –
keratometry (K)
- anterior chamber depth
- patient refraction (preoperative spherical
equivalent)
Posterior chamber phakic IOL power
- corneal thickness and axial length are also
taken into consideration
13. It is same as transferring the pre-operative spectacle
power somewhere between the back surface of
cornea and front surface of crystalline lens.
Consider the optical system as consisting of three
powers:
Spectacle correction
Cornea
IOL
The object and image vergence are defined as:
L= n/l ; L’=n’/l’
14. Then for spherical surface of the lens with radius of
curvature r, the Power is defined as:
•F =(n’-n)/r
Lens maker formula: L’=L+F
Object vergence L= n/ (b-d)
Image vergence L’ = n/(a-d)
FIOL = L’-L = n/ (a-d) – n/ (b-d)
Fs
15. Investigations
Unaided and best corrected VA
Anterior and Posterior segment evaluation
white-to-white (w-w) measurement
High-frequency (50MHz) ultrasound biomicroscopy
Corneal endothelial cell count
16. Artemis high-frequency (50 MHz) 3D-digital ultrasound imaging of the
anterior segment. Red arrows indicate angle-to-angle distance; yellow
arrows indicate sulcus-to-sulcus distance.
17. Deciding the size
AC angle supported IOL
- length of IOL: 11.5 to 14 mm with 0.5mm
intervals
- w-w measurement - significant inaccuracies
- intraoperative AC sizer
- Anterior segment OCT
18. AC Iris-Fixated Phakic IOLs
- one-size-fits-all length - 8.5 mm
Posterior Chamber Phakic IOLs
- w-w measurement plus 0.5mm
- UBM and AS OCT to measure
- sulcus-to-sulcus distance
22. Foldable hydrophilic acrylic angle-supported I-CARE lens (A and B).
Ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) showing the position of the haptic in the anterior
chamber angle (C).
23. Foldable “two parts” (Silicone optic/PMMA haptics) Kelman-Duet lens (A). The
haptics are implanted initially through a small incision (B), then the optic is
injected (C). The complex optic-haptics is assembled inside the anterior
chamber (D).
24. Procedure
Topical pilocarpine
topical or peribulbar anesthesia
Incision
cohesive viscoelastic
lens is introduced , footplate is inserted in
the iridocorneal angle, second haptic is then
placed, lens is then rotated in place
peripheral iridectomy
incision is closed
29. IRIS-FIXATED PHAKIC IOL
midperipheral fixation by a claw mechanism
Veriseye lens
Artisan/Verysise lens. Detail
of the mid-peripheral iris
stroma enclavated by the
haptic claw.
33. Indications of Iris Claw lens
Treatment of refractive errors after penetrating
keratoplasty.
Treatment of anisometropic amblyopia in children.
Secondary implantation for aphakia correction.
Treatment of refractive errors in patients with
keratoconus.
Correction of progressive high myopia in
pseudophakic children, and
postoperative anisometropia in unilateral cataract
patients with bilateral high myopia
46. Posterior Chamber Phakic IOL
Implantation of a phakic IOL in the prelenticular
space
Materials:
Silicone
Collamer
Hydrophilic acrylic
47. Posterior Chamber Phakic IOL
Properties desired in the IOL are:
allow permeability of nutrients
circulation of aqueous humor
not cause crystalline lens or zonular trauma.
48. Silicone IOL
The PRL is a hydrophobic silicone single-piece plate design
IOL with a refractive index of 1.46.
Mechanical touch, impermeability of nutrients, and
stagnation of aqueous flow without the elimination of waste
products cataract formation
Changes its vaulting to avoid
The new models (PRL-100 and 101 (myopia), and PRL-200
(hyperopia), which are claimed to float in the posterior
chamber with its haptics resting on the zonules, decreased the
incidence of cataract formation to almost zero.
But complications, such as lens decentration and zonular
dehiscence with dislocation of the lens into the vitreous cavity.
49. Implantable Collamer Lens
In 1993, a posterior chamber phakic IOL made of
hydrophilic flexible material collamer, which is a
copolymer of HEMA (99%) and porcine
collagen (1%), was developed.
Despite these characteristics, cataract formation and
glaucoma are still the main complications of this lens
high
biocompatibi
lity and
permeability
to gas ,
metabolites
free space
left
between
the IOL and
the
crystalline
lens,
Avoid the
development
of cataracts.
50. Procedure
Mydriasis
Topical or peribulbar anesthesia
temporal clear corneal tunnel
Viscoelastic
Foldable IOL insertion into AC (with an injector or
with forceps)
Check orientation
Placement of footplates below iris
Iridotomy
Closure of incision
51. A posterior chamber lens is folded
(A) and inserted through a small
incision (B) with a forceps.
52. At the end of the procedure a peripheral iridectomy is
performed.
54. Glare and haloes
Incidence 2.4-54.3%.
The frequency of haloes
was higher when the ICL’s optical zone size was small.
The rate of haloes correlated to the difference between
the scotopic pupil diameter and the optical zone size.
In the ICL FDA study, approximately 8.5% of the
patients had glare and haloes postoperatively.
The authors concluded that the incidence of glare,
haloes, double vision, night vision problems, and night
driving difficulties decreased or remained
unchanged from before the operation after ICL surgery.
55. Cataract
As a result of trauma to the crystalline lens during
the implantation procedure
Due to long-term contact between the IOL and the
crystalline lens.
Metabolic disturbances
The majority of these cases were anterior
subcapsular.
Explantation of the ICL is easily
performed through the
same incision
56. Piment Dispersion Syndrome
Rubbing at the optic–haptic junction on the posterior
face of the iris iris abrasion release of pigments into
the aqueous humor.
The pigment deposits had no visual consequences as they
were located at the optic–haptic junction rather than
the central optic.
If PC phakic IOL is:
Undersized decreased vaulting contact between the IOL and the
crystalline lens
Too large iris friction pigmentary dispersion
This is one important reason for adequately measuring
the sulcus-to-sulcus distance.
57. Pigmentary deposits are seen in the angle in an eye with a posterior chamber
phakic intraocular lens.
58. Decentration
Since the PRL lens floats in the posterior chamber
with the haptics resting on the zonular
apparatus, zonular erosion by the IOL haptics
seems to be the main mechanism for IOL instability
and dislocation.
59. Bioptics
The combination of phakic IOL implantation followed by
LASIK in patients with extreme myopia or hypermetropia
and high levels of astigmatism.
When an anterior chamber phakic IOL is planned to be
combined with LASIK, the corneal flap can be created just
prior to the insertion of the lens; then, at a later time,
usually after 1month, the flap is lifted for laser correction of
the residual ametropia. This two-step technique was called
adjustable refractive surgery (ARS) by Guell.
The rationale in performing the flap first is to avoid any
possibility of contact between the endothelium and
the IOL during the suction and cut for the LASIK
procedure.