AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Patients with multifocal IOLs are more likely to develop vitreous opacities and have a lower threshold for vitrectomy, according to a presentation at Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is.
“There’s something about multifocal IOLs that makes floaters much more bothersome,” James M. Osher, MD, of Cincinnati Eye Institute, said.
In a retrospective review of 204 eyes, Osher and colleagues found that patients with multifocal IOLs elected to have vitrectomy more than a year earlier than patients with monofocal IOLs.
“Why is that?” Osher said. “Is