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To Suture or Not: That Is the Question!

Randall J. Olson, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1994;112(10):1289-1290.

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Although IT may not rank with troop withdrawal from Somalia, Bosnian intervention, or the Clinton Health Care Plan, intraocular lens (IOL) fixation in patients without a capsule in association with a corneal transplantation is an important controversy nonetheless. Corneal specialists, in general, are a gentle group, so the call to battle has been soft and muted. Sides, however, have been taken, and battle lines have been drawn. There are three camps, each with a battle cry and undesirable baggage.

CAMP 1

Camp 1 consists of the flexible open-loop, anterior chamber IOL advocates.

Battle Cry

If it isn't broken, why fix it? Appropriate anterior chamber IOLs do just as good a job as other approaches, with immensely easier surgical gymnastics.

Undesirable Baggage

Reports such as the one by Brunette et al¹ in this issue of the ARCHIVES suggest that anterior chamber IOLs do not achieve the same desirable results as . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Salt Lake City, Utah

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