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Small-aperture IOL improves imaginative and prescient in eyes with earlier refractive surgical procedure


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July 03, 2025

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LOS ANGELES — In sufferers who beforehand underwent refractive surgical procedure or corneal inlay implantation, the small-aperture IC-8 Apthera IOL demonstrated constructive imaginative and prescient outcomes, Robert E. Ang, MD, advised Healio.

On the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgical procedure assembly, Ang stated that the IC-8 IOL (Bausch + Lomb) yielded 20/25 uncorrected distance, intermediate and close to imaginative and prescient in sufferers with earlier refractive surgical procedure.

“They’ve very low dysphotopsia or complaints,” he stated.

As well as, the IOL filters out aberrations attributable to earlier corneal inlays whereas offering a stage of presbyopia correction, based on Ang.

“This twin mechanism of motion offers them 20/25 uncorrected distance and intermediate imaginative and prescient,” he stated.