Rotational Stability of a Single-Piece Hydrophobic Acrylic Intraocular Lens During Removal of Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Devices
Accepted 13 August 2009. published online 06 November 2009.
Purpose
To compare the effect of cohesive and dispersive ophthalmic viscosurgical device (OVD) on intraoperative rotational stability of the intraocular lens (IOL) with single-piece hydrophobic acrylate platform.
Design
Prospective, comparative study.
Methods
This institutional clinical study included 60 eyes of 60 patients who underwent phacoemulsifcation. The patients were equally divided into cohesive OVD (Healon GV; Abbott Medical Optics, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA) group and dispersive OVD (Viscoat; Alcon Laboratories, Fort Worth, Texas, USA) group. Image analysis from the captured digital image was used to measure intraoperative rotation of single-piece hydrophobic acrylate IOL (SA60AT or SA60NT) during OVD removal.
Results
Mean intraoperative rotation was 7.42 degrees ± 4.16 (standard deviation) in dispersive OVD group and 13.08 degrees ± 5.25 (standard deviation) in cohesive OVD group (P < .001). Twenty-one cases (70%) maintained the alignment within 10 degrees during removal of OVD with dispersive OVD, while only 9 cases (30%) did so with cohesive OVD (P = .005). Counterclockwise rotation was observed in 33% of the all cases.
Conclusions
This study showed that a significant amount of IOL rotation occurred during OVD removal. Intraoperative rotational stability of IOL was greater with Viscoat than with Healon GV.
aDepartment of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
bDepartment of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea
cDepartment of Ophthalmology, Kim's Eye Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Inquiries to Joon Young Hyon, Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Gyeonggi 463-707, Korea
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