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Clinical application of the sapphire unfolder lens injection system
Weiai Guo1, Danying Zheng, Zhenyu Li
1Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Purpose:
To summarize the clinical experience of 300 cases using the Sapphire unfloder intraocular lens (IOL) injection system.
Methods:
After the standard phacoemulsification, an AR40e IOL was implanted using the Sapphire Unfolder. The involved problems during and after the operation were observed and analyzed.
Results:
The complications occurred during the operation including the crack at the haptic-optic junction in 2 cases, slight kink in the haptic in 5 cases, IOL clamp into the cartridge in 2 cases, posterior capsular rupture in 2 cases and endothelium damage in the central small area in 4 cases. All the patients recovered successfully with IOLs in good
Conclusion:
IOL implantation with the Sapphire Unfolder led to no serious complications and got the satisfactory results.
