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Happy 70th Birthday!
Heidelberg, 29 November 2019. Today is the 70th anniversary of Sir Harold Ridley’s implantation of an intraocular lens – the very first IOL operation. The lens implantation took place at St...
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How far we have come: From Ridley’s first intraocular lens to modern IOL technology
What was written ten years ago, Prof. Thomas Kohnen’s editorial in the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in November 2009.
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Wolfgang Haigis : in memoriam
Wolfgang Haigis – The Scientist known for his formulae dies at 72. The German Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (DGII) has announced that Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Haigis, a physicist...
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Prizewinning in Paris
Paris 15 September 2019 The First prize for cataract posters was awarded to Daniel H Chang MD, USA, for his poster “Visual outcomes and defocus curve profile of a next-generation...
read moreNew paper on small-aperture IOL results.
Functional Outcomes and Reading Performance After Combined Implantation of a Small-Aperture Lens and a Segmental Refractive Bifocal Lens Hyeck-Soo Son, MD; Ramin Khoramnia, MD; Timur M. Yildirim, MD; Isabella Baur,...
read moreNew Clinical findings with the MINI WELL EDOF IOL.
Heidelberg, 28 August 2019. Another paper from the research group at the David J Apple Center for Vision Research has been accepted for publication in the BMC Ophthalmology journal. Functional results...
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