TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kook, Daniel
A1  - Kampik, Anselm
A1  - Dexl, Alois K.
A1  - Zimmermann, Nicole
A1  - Glasser, Adrian
A1  - Baumeister, Martin
A1  - Kohnen, Thomas
T1  - Advances in lens implant technology
T2  - F1000 medicine reports
N2  - Cataract surgery is one of the oldest and the most frequent outpatient clinic operations in medicine performed worldwide. The clouded human crystalline lens is replaced by an artificial intraocular lens implanted into the capsular bag. During the last six decades, cataract surgery has undergone rapid development from a traumatic, manual surgical procedure with implantation of a simple lens to a minimally invasive intervention increasingly assisted by high technology and a broad variety of implants customized for each patient’s individual requirements. This review discusses the major advances in this field and focuses on the main challenge remaining – the treatment of presbyopia. The demand for correction of presbyopia is increasing, reflecting the global growth of the ageing population. Pearls and pitfalls of currently applied methods to correct presbyopia and different approaches under investigation, both in lens implant technology and in surgical technology, are discussed.
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27799
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-277993
SN  - 1757-5931
N1  - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found at: http://f1000.com/prime/reports/m/5/3
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -