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Vestnik Oftalmologii
|August 4, 2005
Abstract:
The paper analyzes the nature of an accommodational response in 11 patients (19 eyes) before and after surgical correction of myopia with ICL intraocular lenses (IOLs). Rapid and slow accommodational responses were studied to different values of an accommodation stimulus (from 1.0 to 3.0 diopters). The implanted IOLs were found to have no effect on the performance of the ciliary muscle. Its compensatory enhancement occurs after implantation, which ensures the normal performance of the accommodation apparatus.
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