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Dr.Harold Ridley in 1949 implanted first IOL in human eye.His work
stimulated other eye surgeons to design and implant IOLs.After a bumpy
start by late 1960's and early 70's enthusiasm for IOL begun to burge on
and the use of IOL spread like wild fire.
Previously cataract was removed by ICCE technique and
patients were left aphakic. They had to use +10 to + 12D thick and heavy
glasses with following disadvantages and limitations :-
1. 25-30% magnified image,diplopia.
2. Restricted field of vision .
3. Chromatic aberration.
4. Spherical aberration.
5. More incidence of vitreous disturbance, retinal detachment,
CME, aphakic glaucoma etc.
To prevent and over come these problems Govt. of India trained eye
surgeons for IOL implantation & provided operating microscopes,slit
lamp, A-scan, keratometer, free IOL at all static centers all over the
country. Today every surgeon is doing IOL implantation .
After IOL implantation patient sees equally with both the eyes and
develops binocular vision.
There is no side effect of old technique.
IOL IN MSU :-
The MSU is updated in eye surgery. The unit purchased operating
microscope in1997 and started IOL surgery. Ever since the number
of IOL surgery is increasing regularly. At present we have two operating
microscopes and three trained eye surgeons.Since last two years ICCE is
completely stopped.
In the year 2004-05 we implanted about 3500 IOL in 24 camps
in remote and rural areas of Rajasthan.
FUTURE PLANS:
1. We plan to start sutureless surgery using phaco-emulsification
machine.
2. YAG-Laser, to treat posterior capsular opacification |
