title: Stability of cachet phakic intraocular lens position during 6-months follow-up.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the position stability of a phakic intraocular lens (Cachet pIOL; Alcon, Laboratories, Inc., Fort Worth, TX) in the anterior chamber (AC) during a 6-months follow-up.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty eyes of 16 subjects underwent a Cachet pIOL implantation for the correction of high myopia from -6.50 to -16.00 D with plano targeted refraction. The position stability of the Cachet pIOL was evaluated using an Anterior Segment-OCT (AS-OCT, Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany) at 1- and 6-months postoperatively. Three measurements have been taken into account: 1) the minimum distance between the anterior surface of the Cachet pIOL optic disk and the central corneal endothelium; 2) the minimum distance between the optic disk's edges of the pIOL and the endothelium; 3) the minimum distance between the posterior surface of the pIOL optic disk and the anterior surface of the crystalline lens. The endothelial cell density (ECD) was also recorded.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No statistically significant changes of the Cachet pIOL position in the AC were found during follow-up. The average changes were ≤0.1 mm between 1- and 6-months postoperatively (P>0.05). At the end of follow-up, The mean ECD loss was 0.7 % (from 2794 ± 337 cell/mm(2) to 2776 ± 388 cell/mm(2); P>0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A high position stability of the Cachet pIOL in the anterior chamber was shown during a 6-months follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Fondazione G.B. Bietti IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schiano Lomoriello
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lombardo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gualdi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Iacobelli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tranchina
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ducoli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Serrao
keywords: Phakic IOL; anterior segment oct.; cachet; high myopia
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