Very high frequency ultrasound analysis of a new phakic posterior chamber intraocular lens in situ.

PURPOSE: To use very high frequency ultrasound scanning for in situ analysis of a new phakic posterior chamber intraocular lens (No-Touch; International Visions Inc, Cincinnati, Ohio).

METHODS

In this pilot study, very high frequency ultrasound (50 MHz) wide-angle (15 mm) full anterior segment scans were obtained in two patients who had undergone phakic posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation into legally blind eyes with normal anterior segment anatomy.

RESULTS

Very high frequency ultrasound B-scan images delineated the phakic posterior chamber intraocular lens within the posterior chamber. The relations to the sulci were clearly imaged. Anatomic relations of the phakic posterior chamber intraocular lens optic and haptics were visualized in both static (light/dark) and kinetic (distance/accommodative) states.

CONCLUSION

Very high frequency ultrasound wide-angle scanning provides a unique tool to noninvasively evaluate the eye preoperatively and the static and kinetic relations of this new refractive device within the posterior chamber.