Visual and refractive results of multifocal intraocular lenses.
Ophthalmology 1991 June
One hundred forty-nine selected patients with bilateral multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) were evaluated and compared retrospectively with 131 patients with bilateral monofocal IOLs. Seventy-eight percent of multifocal cases and 74.8% of monofocal cases had uncorrected visual acuity of 20/40 or better. Fifty-four percent of multifocal cases had near uncorrected visions of J1 to J3. Eighteen percent had best-corrected near vision of J4 or worse. Sixty-three percent of multifocal cases versus 4% of monofocal cases needed no spectacle correction. Multifocal cases reported significantly more visual side effects (flare, glare, and halos). The 10% of cases with poor satisfaction (rating vision as fair-to-poor) had significantly (P = 0.03) more postoperative astigmatism (1.1 prism diopters [D] versus 0.74 D) compared with satisfied (good-to-excellent) cases. Patients who were dissatisfied reported more need for corrective lenses but not more side effects. A greater decrease in contrast sensitivity at low contrast levels was detected among multifocal cases. Both groups had similar contrast sensitivity at 96% and 50% contrast, but at 11% contrast, multifocal cases averaged a loss of 3.45 Snellen lines (to 20/48.2) compared with 2.65 lines (to 20/36) for monofocal cases.
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