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IOL Pearls: IOL Touchdown
May 2019
Meeting: 2019 Annual Meeting
Session: SYM-308: ASCRS TOPGUN 2019: Essential Pearls from the Best International Phaco Instructors
Presenter: Filomena J. Ribeiro, MD
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This is a (I.Prieto) maneuver for retropupillary implant of an iris claw IOL in a aphakia eye without capsular support.
-Iris claw retropupillary fixation advantages: IOL is placed behind the iris , preserving corneal endothelium.
-The advantages of this maneuver:
1- Easier,
2- Ensure the correct implant in the middle periphery of the iris and correct centration of the IOL,
3- Allows to perform it with only one hand
4- Allows IOL to be maintained in control without the risk of posterior luxation.

The technique only takes to Insert a prolene straight needle (17,00 mm in length) limbus-to-limbus (3 and 9 o’clock) in the center of the pupil. Then insert in anterior chamber the IOL using a fixation forceps with the concavity of the IOL up. Keeping holding always the IOL pass one side behind the iris and with a up-tilt move towards the needle location, fixate the haptic. Without loosing the IOL repeat the maneuver in the other side. At the end the needle is removed.
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This presentation is from the session "SYM-308: ASCRS TOPGUN 2019: Essential Pearls from the Best International Phaco Instructors" from the 2019 ASCRS Annual Meeting held on May 4-7, 2019 in San Diego, California.

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