Apparent accommodation in monocular pseudophakic eyes and contact lens wearing monocular aphakic eyes.

Author: Jae Sun LEE ¹ ; Hung Won TCHAH ; Dong Ho YOUN
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1. Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Publication Type:Original Article
Keywords: apparent accommodation; pseudophakic eyes; aphakic eyes; pupil size; taiget size
MeSH: *Accommodation, Ocular; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aphakia, Postcataract/*physiopathology; Child; *Contact Lenses; Humans; Middle Aged
From:Korean Journal of Ophthalmology 1988;2(1):1-4
CountryRepublic of Korea
Language:English
Abstract: To investigate the presence of apparent accommodation in monocular pseudopakic eyes and contact lens wearing monocular aphakic eyes, we measured it in 54 monocular pseudophakic eyes (54 patients) and 40 contact lens wearing monocular aphakic eyes (40 patients). The mean apparent accommodation was 1.68+/-1.25 diopters in monocular pseudophakic eyes and 1.74+/-0.73 diopters in contact lens wearing monocular aphakic eyes, and there was no statistically significant difference between them. Apparent accommodation was not related either to type of intraocular lenses or pupil size in pseudophakic eyes and not related to target size in aphakic eyes, but it was influenced by pupil size in aphakic eyes. In the group of patients aged between 45 and 55, accommodation in phakic eyes was significantly greater than apparent accommodation in contralateral contact lens wearing monocular aphakic eyes.