title: [Lens refilling].
abstract: Cataract surgery has developed into a very safe and highly reproducible procedure but the ultimate goal to also restore physiological accommodation has not yet been achieved. A variety of accommodative intraocular lenses (IOLs) and surgical techniques have been suggested to cure presbyopia but all showed only poor accommodative effects by objective measurements. Complete lens refilling with flexible polymers might be an interesting alternative. Recent investigations on accommodation and presbyopia have given support to the lens refilling method. After development of suitable surgical techniques and filling materials only secondary cataract formation and the unsolved intraoperative control of refraction restrict the clinical use of this technique.
authors.affiliation: Augenklinik Minden. hettlich@t-online.de
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Hettlich
mesh_terms: D002386:Cataract / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D011474:Prosthesis Design
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