Surgeon reports high patient satisfaction with hydrogel corneal inlay

BOSTON – Overall patient satisfaction is 98% after implantation with the Raindrop inlay, according to a surgeon here. The Raindrop inlay is a hydrogel corneal inlay limited to investigational use in the U.S. As an investigator in the ReVision Optics Raindrop Near Vision Inlay U.S. IDE Trial for emmetropes only, Jeffrey Whitman, MD, has implanted 82 eyes of 82 patients, with outcomes at 1 year available for 45 of those patients. At 1 week, uncorrected near visual acuity in the inlay eye improved, and continued to improve, with 93% of (Read more...)

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