Ciliary Muscle Electrostimulation to Restore Accommodation in Patients With Early Presbyopia: Preliminary Results

Presbyopia, from the Greek words presbys meaning “old man” and ops meaning to “see like,” is the inability to comfortably focus on close objects due to aging. This is the most common physiologic alteration of eye-sight, affecting more than 1.2 billion individuals worldwide, and leads to a major impact on productivity among healthy adults.1 Presbyopia also significantly affects quality of life in both developed and developing countries.2 Unlike ametropic defects or refractive errors (myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism), caused by genetic and environmental conditions that affect the shape of
Source: Journal of Refractive Surgery - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Source Type: research