title: Sutured piggyback toric intraocular lenses to correct high astigmatism.
abstract: A 74-year-old woman presented for bilateral cataract surgery, which was performed 3 days apart. Corneal astigmatism was 4.25 diopters (D) in the right eye and 4.87 D in the left. After cataract extraction through 6.0 mm scleral incisions, 2 toric, plate-haptic, silicone intraocular lenses (IOLs), each with a 3.50 D cylinder add power (2.30 D at spectacle plane), were sutured together and implanted in the bag. Both eyes had limbal relaxing incisions postoperatively. Four months postoperatively, corneal astigmatism was 4.50 D in the right eye and 4.00 D in the left. Refractive astigmatism was 0.50 D with an uncorrected visual acuity of 20/40 in both eyes. No IOL rotation was observed. Suturing toric lenses together allows greater correction of astigmatism without concern about counter rotation of the lenses.
authors.affiliation: St. Luke's Cataract and Laser Institute, Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA. drgills@stlukeseye.com
authors.forename: James P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Gills
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001251:Astigmatism / Q000601:surgery*; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D019781:Corneal Topography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular / Q000379:methods*; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D012399:Rotation; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014792:Visual Acuity