2024年10月30日 · An intraocular lens (or IOL) is a tiny, artificial lens for the eye. It replaces the eye’s natural lens that is removed during cataract surgery. Several types of IOLs are available.

2022年12月12日 · During cataract surgery, the natural clouded lens is replaced with an artificial lens called an intraocular lens (IOL). An IOL can not only restore vision lost to cataracts, but may also correct refractive errors such as nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), astigmatism or presbyopia.

2024年10月9日 · During cataract surgery, your cloudy natural lens is removed and replaced with a clear artificial lens. That lens is called an intraocular lens (IOL). Your ophthalmologist will talk with you about IOLs and how they work.

2023年3月29日 · An intraocular lens (IOL) is a clear, artificial lens implant used to replace a cloudy natural lens in cataract surgery. Like your eye's natural lens, an IOL focuses light that comes into your eye through the cornea and pupil onto the retina, the sensitive tissue at the back of the eye that relays images through the optic nerve to the brain ...

2010年7月1日 · The first of these two problems is easier to fix. “Patients with lens power issues have alternatives to explantation,” Dr. Rosenfeld said. “We can use a piggyback lens implant or do LASIK or PRK on the corneal surface to add or subtract power.”

2014年2月21日 · All surgeons have to explant lens implants at some point due to improper lens power or complications from the lens implant. While this is not common, it definitely occurs and if your surgeon feels the power is wrong and it is safe to exchange, you should consider the options or consider a second opinion.

2024年9月30日 · People who want to be less dependent on eyeglasses might want to consider other lenses known as presbyopia-correcting IOLs. Three types— multifocal, accommodative, and extended depth-of-focus IOLs—offer different focusing powers within the same lens.

2018年9月25日 · Under the 2005 ruling, if a Medicare beneficiary wants a presby­opia-correcting intraocular lens (IOL), Medicare will pay what it would cost to restore functional vision—i.e., the fee for replacing the cataractous lens with a conventional IOL, which is currently $105—and you can bill the patient for additional costs associated with the new ...

2016年11月4日 · If I have the IOL implant lenses set for near- or mid-range, will the actual range of focus be any greater for near- or mid-work than it would be if the IOL lenses are set for distance? The main distances I need are: 14" (reading), 20" (playing the pipe organ), and 36" for reading student's music while teaching.

2018年4月24日 · Answer: Since your surgeon removed a dislocated IOL and implanted a new one, this is an IOL exchange. Payers may or may not cover the pars plana vitrectomy, based on the diagnosis. Often payers want a vitreous diagnosis associated with the PPV for these cases. Submit: 66986 -RT Exchange of intraocular lens; and; 67036 -RT Pars plana vitrectomy.