title: Experience with ARRAY multifocal lenses in a Singapore population.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To evaluate the clinical efficiency, safety and subjective visual outcomes of multifocal intraocular lenses (IOL) in the Singapore population.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a retrospective case series of 45 phacoemulsification with multifocal lens implantation performed in 27 patients for cataracts, over a two-year period. The efficacy, stability and safety of the lens were assessed up to six months of follow-up. A telephone interview enquiring about ratings of vision, spectacle independence, glare, driving difficulty and photic phenomena, was conducted and the results were compared with those published in the literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The best corrected distance Logmar acuity was 0.1 (0.1 and near visual acuity was N5 (range N5 to N8) at six months. The distance visual acuity stabilised by one month whereas near vision remained unchanged from day one post-surgery. Posterior capsular opacification was seen in 17 patients (38.6 percent) of which two patients (4.55 percent) required YAG capsulotomy. Total spectacle independence was achieved in 12 patients (54.4 percent). Among those who required spectacles, 50 percent required spectacles more than 50 percent of the time. Five patients (22.7 percent) reported glare usually at night (80 percent) as compared with daytime glare (20 percent). The most common photic phenomena report after surgery was halo.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Advanced Medical Optics ARRAY multifocal IOL showed good efficacy, predictability, stability and safety. The subjective visual outcomes in the Singapore population were comparable to those of their Western counterparts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, National University Hospital, 5 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074. jennwang2003@yahoo.com
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: A W T
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Monatosh
authors.forename: P T K
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Chew
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018918:Phacoemulsification; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012846:Singapore; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014792:Visual Acuity