Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 115-122 , January 2004

Late postoperative opacification of MemoryLens hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lenses Case series and review

  • Mana Tehrani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Mana Tehrani, MD, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Department of Ophthalmology, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
    • Department of Ophthalmology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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  • Nick Mamalis, MD

      Affiliations

    • John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Garden City, KS, USA
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  • Trevin Wallin, MD

      Affiliations

    • John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Garden City, KS, USA
    • ,
  • H.Burkhard Dick, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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  • Bernhard M Stoffelns, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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  • Randall Olson, MD

      Affiliations

    • John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Garden City, KS, USA
    • ,
  • Luther L Fry, MD

      Affiliations

    • Salt Lake City, Utah, and Fry Eye Associates, Garden City, KS, USA
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  • William S Clifford, MD

      Affiliations

    • Salt Lake City, Utah, and Fry Eye Associates, Garden City, KS, USA

,Accepted 23 April 2003.

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☆ Presented at the XXth Congress of the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, Nice, France, September 2002.

☆☆ Supported in part by a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, New York, to the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of the Utah.

★ None of the authors has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

★★ Drs. David Castner and Dan Graham, senior fellow, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, analyzed the IOLs' composition.

PII: S0886-3350(03)00461-9

doi: 10.1016/S0886-3350(03)00461-9

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 115-122 , January 2004

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