Macula add-on lens improves quality of life for patients with AMD

Niels Vesti Nielsen
VIENNA — A study assessing the quality of life of patients with age-related macular degeneration implanted with the Scharioth Macula Lens demonstrated significant improvement, particularly in patients with legal blindness vision loss.
“Professor Scharioth’s lens (SML, Medicontur) is an excellent new concept, overcoming the limitations, discomfort and stigma attached to extended low vision aids,” Niels Vesti Nielsen, MD, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting. “It is a simple add-on IOL with bifocal design, with

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