[Carefully performing the phakic intraocular lens implantation for moderate and low myopia]

The refractive surgery is improved and updated with time. In recent years, the phakic intraocular lens has been continuously modified and innovated in materials and design. With advantages such as less high-order aberrations, reversible lens and good visual quality, it has led to a new trend of refractive surgery, which attract an increasing number of high myopic persons received phakic intraocular lens implantation instead of corneal refractive surgery, particularly to further expand the applying for moderate and low myopia. This article focuses on the rational selection of moderate and low myopia to receive laser correction vision or phakic lens, and elaborates the different characteristics with advantages and disadvantages of corneal refractive surgery and phakic intraocular lens implantation, which suggest to perform the phakic intraocular lens implantation for moderate and low myopia cautiously and standardize surgical indications strictly. It is necessary to continuously strengthen the standardization and safety of laser corneal refractive surgery and phakic intraocular lens implantation in order to improve the visual quality and satisfaction further for myopic patients in clinic. (Chin J Ophthalmol, 2018, 54: 726-728).