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Myopia Progression With a Novel Extended Depth of Focus Contact Lens

Myopia has been increasing in prevalence and severity throughout the world over the last 30 years. Increasing levels of myopia are associated with increased frequencies and severity of various ocular pathologies, including cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachments and other retinal pathologies and myopic maculopathy. Slowing myopia progression at a young age before the eye reaches excessive axial length may help to reduce the future risks of these ocular pathologies. Conventional spectacles and contact lenses are prescribed correct myopia by moving the central focus of the eye for distance viewing from in front of the retina to on the retina centrally, or at the fovea. To varying degrees, these lenses allow the light to focus behind the retina, at varying peripheral retinal locations. These findings have led to efforts to design spectacle and contact lenses which correct peripheral hyperopic defocus, to reduce myopia progression. The consensus theory for how both multifocal contact lenses and orthokeratology can control myopia progression is that they each can reduce, eliminate, or reverse relative peripheral hyperopic defocus. Existing published studies on the use of multifocal contact lenses to control myopia in humans have utilized lenses with the distance correction in the center with peripheral plus power to correct the peripheral blur. Until recently, there have been no daily disposable multifocal lenses in the US market with distance center designs. The NaturalVue contact lens from Visioneering Technologies, Inc. is the first daily disposable distance center multifocal in the US. It has a novel extended depth of focus design where the distance correction is in the center of the optical zone, surrounded by a zone characterized by having a seamless, rapid transition from the distance power to a highly plus power at the edge of the optical zone. This study will analyze the myopia progression of patients in the investigator's practice while wearing their habitual visual corrections for periods up to two years prior to being switched to NaturalVue contact lenses. They will then be followed for up to two years after beginning use of this novel lens design and the differences in their myopia progression after versus before this novel lens will be analyzed. Axial lengths will be measured with the IOLMaster after switching to NaturalVue, at six-month intervals and will be compared to axial lengths which have been collected with habitual corrections.

Start: January 2017
Implantable Phakic Lens (IPCL) VS Implantable Collamer Lens

Phakic intraocular lenses (pIOL) of different designs and materials have been used effectively instead of corneal refractive surgery in certain situations. The pIOL exhibits a number of advantages over corneal techniques as it is suitable for high myopes, with lower production of aberrations, and superior contrast sensitivity. Keeping the accommodation is its definite lead over refractive lens exchange. The Visian implantable collamer lens (ICL; Staar Surgical, Monrovia, CA), a posterior chamber pIOL, has been stated to be useful for the correction of high myopia. Nevertheless, as an intraocular procedure, it is associated with a risk of complications as probable injury to anterior segment, retinal detachment and endophthalmitis. The Implantable Phakic Contact Lens (IPCL V2, Caregroup Sight Solutions, India) has been developed as an alternative for the ICL, at a noticeable financial advantage. Furthermore, the highestmyopic correction which is instantly accessible with ICL is -18.0 D. Meanwhile, IPCL can provide correction higher degrees up to -30.0 D. Former researches have been made to assess the safety and efficiency of ICL implantation, to evaluate various devices for anterior segment imaging postoperatively and to identify changes in anterior segment after surgery. A recent study determined the safety of the IPCL over a minimum follow-up period of one year. In this work the investigators aimed to compare the refractive results and the adverse effects of the IPCL and the ICL in treatment of myopia in adults.

Start: October 2020