MILAN — If cataract surgery today is a safe, standardized procedure able to provide excellent quality of vision, this is due to the intuition, passion and hard work of innovators often fiercely criticized and ostracized by colleagues.
In the Heritage Lecture at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Lucio Buratto, MD, took the audience on a fascinating journey, with the support of rare surgical videos, over the history of IOL development.
Right from Ridley’s first and revolutionary disc-shaped posterior chamber lens, IOL development has been a story of