Comparison of the incidence and visual significance of posterior capsule opacification between multifocal spherical, monofocal spherical, and monofocal aspheric intraocular lenses

 Dr. Solomon is a consultant to Alcon Laboratories, Inc.; Allergan, Inc.; Abbott Medical Optics; Advanced Medical Research; Bausch & Lomb, Inc.; QLT; and Eyemaginations. No other author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

 Presented in part at the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, USA, April 2008, and the Storm Eye/ASCRS Clinical Update 2008, Kiawah Island, South Carolina, USA, June 2008.

 Supported in part by a National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute grant 14793 (vision core), Bethesda, Maryland, and an unrestricted grant to Medical University of South Carolina–Storm Eye Institute from Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, New York, USA.

 M.A. Guenena, MD, Magill Research Center, Storm Eye Institute, reviewed the literature. D. Hunter collected the data. L.R. Bartholomew, PhD, critically reviewed the paper. Alcon Laboratories provided the intraocular lens images in the figures.

PII: S0886-3350(09)00340-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.03.013

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