Contralateral comparison of blue-filtering and non-blue-filtering intraocular lenses: Glare disability, heterochromatic contrast, and photostress recovery

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1465-1473

  Hammond Jr , Billy R ^a   Renzi, Lisa M ^a   Sachak, Sohel ^b   Brint, Stephen F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

^c Brint Vision   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue light; Filter; Glare; Intraocular lens; Photostress; Retina

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; BLUE LIGHT FILTERING INTRAOCULAR LENS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLARE; GLARE DISABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIC CONTRAST THRESHOLD; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHOTOSTRESS RECOVERY TIME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET ONLY FILTERING INTRAOCULAR LENS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; WHITE LIGHT;

EID: 78650686117     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S15102     Document Type: Article

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