Clear Lens Exchange as a Refractive Surgery

Kurt Buzard MD FACS

Clinical Assistant Professor

Tulane University Medical School
University of Nevada Medical School
Buzard Eye Institute
Las Vegas Nevada

Distance Uncorrected Vision

Results

• 5.6% lens exchange
• 40% slit lamp astigmatic corrections
• Patients with poorer vision either converted to monovision or were
• amblyopic preop

Summary

• Lens exchange is a safe and effective treatment for refractive disorders
• Particularly effective for hyperopia with none of the glare, drift or inaccuracy encountered in corneal hyperopic operations

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