In this article, I will give you, a brief summary of often clinical used phakic posterior chamber intraocular lenses types and their advantages and disadvantages.

  1. Backgroud: to avoid the complication of anterior chamber intraocular lens, such as endothelium risk and pupil ovalization. The lens is inserted between iris and crystalline lens.the first implantation is done by Fyodorv in August 1986.
  2. Fyodorov and Chiron-Adatomed IOLs styles were designed to be fixated in the ciliary sulcus but, as the optic had the shape of a collar-button with a small diameter and protruded into the anterior chamber, the pupil could not constrict anterior to the More >