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Bag-in-the-lens inventor reviews long-term outcomes, new developments
With more than 20,000 procedures performed worldwide and a follow-up of almost 12 years, bag-in-the-lens cataract surgery has proven to be a successful technique, with no cases of posterior capsule opacification, even in unusual cases.OSN Europe Edition Associate Editor Marie-José Tassignon, MD, PhD, who developed this method of cataract surgery with IOL implantation, has a personal experience of approximately 10,000 cases, performs bag-in-the-lens (BIL, Morcher) routinely and has patients come from all over Europe to be implanted with her technique.