Effect of Glistening-Free Intraocular Lens on Intraocular Straylight

Min Ji Kang; Hyung Bin Hwang; Sung Kun Chung

doi:10.3341/jkos.2014.55.7.1001

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Kang, Hwang, and Chung: Effect of Glistening-Free Intraocular Lens on Intraocular Straylight

Original Article

J Korean Ophthalmol Soc 2014;55(7):1001-1006.

Published online: 30 August 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3341/jkos.2014.55.7.1001

Effect of Glistening-Free Intraocular Lens on Intraocular Straylight

Min Ji Kang, MD¹, Hyung Bin Hwang, MD, PhD², Sung Kun Chung, MD, PhD^3,

¹Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

²Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

³Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, St. Paul ‘s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Address reprint requests to Sung Kun Chung, MD, PhD Department of Ophthalmology, The Catholic University of Korea, St. Paul's Hospital, #180 Wangsan-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-709, Korea, Tel: 82-2-958-2151, Fax: 82-2-960-2150 E-mail: eyedoc@catholic.ac.kr

Received 12 October 2013 Revised 27 January 2014 Accepted 2 June 2014

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose

To compare intraocular straylight between glistening-free and conventional intraocular lenses in pseudophakic eyes.

Methods

Straylight values were measured prospectively in 21 eyes with glistening-free pseudophakic lenses (group A, model enVista™, Bausch & Lomb, Inc., USA) and 79 eyes with conventional hydrophilic pseudophakic lenses (group B, model Akreos MI-60, Bausch & Lomb, Inc., USA). Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and straylight were measured preoperatively and 1 month and 2 months postoperatively using C-quant straylight meter (Oculus GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany).

Results

There were no statistically significant differences of BCVA preoperatively or 2 months postoperatively between the 2 groups (p > 0.05). BCVA and straylight significantly improved after the operation (p < 0.05). The mean straylight values were 1.43 ± 0.12 (log[s]) and 1.41 ± 0.16 (log[s]) for group A, and 1.33 ± 0.61 (log[s]) and 1.40 ± 0.82 (log[s]) for group B at post-operative 1 month and 2 months, respectively, with no statistical significance between the 2 groups (p > 0.05).

Conclusions

In terms of straylight, glistening-free intraocular lenses were not beneficial. Although straylight was not statistically significant, other correlations between glistening and visual function should be investigated.

Keywords: Glistening, Light scattering, Straylight

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Figure 1.

Comparison of stralight between the enVista™ and MI60 groups at postoperative 1 and 2 months. (A) Straylight at post-operative 1 month. (B) Straylight at postoperative 2 months.

Figure 2.

Comparison of straylight with age at postoperative 2 months. EnVista™ (A), Akreos MI-60 (B).

Table 1.

Demographics, gender, age, best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in two groups

	Group A^* (n = 21 eyes)	Group B^† (n = 79 eyes)	p-value
Sex (M:F)	8:13	26:53	0.660
Age (years)	67.76 ± 7.09	66.54 ± 12.00	0.556
BCVA (log MAR)
Pre op	0.45 ± 0.20	0.46 ± 0.27	0.400
Post op - 2 months	0.12 ± 0.08	0.16 ± 0.18	0.554

Values are presented as mean ± SD.

Pre op = preoperative; Post op = postoperative.

^* enVista™;

^† Akreos MI-60.

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