Saturday, April 22, 2017

Surgical treatments of presbyopia


Surgical treatments of presbyopia include the following:



Accommodative intraocular lensimplantation: be suitable for older adults with cataracts.

Non- accommodative intraocular lens implantation: implantation of intraocular lens selection reserved some degrees of myopia, patients see far distances wearing myopia correction lens, and see near distances without needing to wear glasses, so as to solve the presbyopia.

Scleral expansion band surgery: it does not have wide discussion, and the effect is not ideal, so there is still controversy.

LASIK surgery (Laser in situ keratomileusis): change the curvature of cornea by LASIK surgery, correcting the farsightedness of one eye (dominant eye) to see distant visions, correcting the nearsightedness of the other eye to see near visions. Most people expressed satisfaction after surgery.


Conductive keratoplasty (CK surgery): apply radio frequency current in the surrounding cornea to shrink corneal collagen tissue, changing the central corneal curvature (convex), so as to correct presbyopia. This non-laser conductive keratoplasty is safe and effective in treatments of mild to moderate hyperopia, presbyopia, almost without postoperative complications. The treatment range is + 0.75 to +3.00 degrees.

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