RESEARCH ARTICLE


Stability of Cachet Phakic Intraocular Lens Position During 6-Months Follow-Up



D Schiano Lomoriello*, 1, M Lombardo1, L Gualdi2, L Iacobelli3, L Tranchina4, P Ducoli1, S Serrao1
1 Fondazione G.B. Bietti IRCCS, Rome, Italy
2 DOMA, Rome, Italy
3 Istituto Neurotraumatologico Italiano, Grottaferrata, Rome, Italy
4 Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Diagnostica per Immagini, Università degli Studi “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2013
Volume: 7
First Page: 20
Last Page: 23
Publisher ID: TOOPHTJ-7-20
DOI: 10.2174/1874364101307010020

Article History:

Received Date: 30/10/2012
Revision Received Date: 22/1/2013
Acceptance Date: 25/1/2013
Electronic publication date: 22 /03/2013
Collection year: 2013

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Abstract

Purpose:

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/mm2 to 2776 ± 388 cell/mm2; P>0.05).

Conclusion:

A high position stability of the Cachet pIOL in the anterior chamber was shown during a 6-months follow-up.

Keywords: Phakic IOL, high myopia, cachet, anterior segment oct.