2020–2021 BCSC Basic and Clinical Science Course™
3 Clinical Optics
Chapter 6: Intraocular Lenses
Multifocal Intraocular Lenses
Accommodating Intraocular Lenses
These lenses are essentially monofocal IOLs designed to allow some degree of improved near vision. Usually, such designs involve linking accommodative effort to an anterior movement of the IOL, thereby increasing its effective power in the eye. This mechanism may be more effective with higher-power IOLs because their effective powers are more sensitive to small changes in position than are those of lower-power IOLs. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved one design that has shown some degree of accommodation, and other designs are awaiting FDA approval. However, currently, there is no clinical evidence that “accommodating” IOLs change axial position in the eye during near-vision tasks.
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Excerpted from BCSC 2020-2021 series : Section 3 - Clinical Optics. For more information and to purchase the entire series, please visit https://www.aao.org/bcsc.