title: Artiflex toric phakic intraocular lens implantation in congenital nystagmus.
abstract: METHODS
  A 44-year-old woman with congenital nystagmus and myopic astigmatism in both eyes who was submitted to phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Full ophthalmologic examination including refractive status, corrected (CDVA) and uncorrected (UCVA) monocular and binocular visual acuities, ocular motility, slit-lamp evaluation, tonometry and fundoscopy before and after implantation of toric pIOLs (Artiflex; Ophtec BV, The Netherlands) in both eyes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Preoperative logMAR CDVA were 0.699 and 0.420 in the right and left eye, respectively. Three months after surgery, logMAR UCVA were 0.398 and 0.182, reaching binocular logMAR UCVA of 0.132. There were no changes in nystagmus characteristics after surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  pIOL implantation may be a safe and suitable treatment to correct high refractive errors in patients with congenital nystagmus. Significant improvement in CDVA and UCVA can be achieved.
authors.affiliation: Refractive Surgery Department, Centro Oftalmológico Marqués de Sotelo and Hospital NISA Valencia al Mar, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: Lurdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Belda
authors.forename: César
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Albarrán-Diego
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ferrer-Blasco
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: García-Lázaro