| Why carry out this study? |
| Foldable hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lenses (IOLs) are prone to develop a long-term postoperative material change called glistenings. |
| We induced glistenings in vitro in hydrophobic acrylic IOLs from different years to find changes in the tendency to develop this pathology and estimate its current clinical importance. |
| We hypothesized that the tendency to glistening formation in the studied IOL material has decreased from the 1990s until today. |
| What was learned from the study? |
| The number of glistenings was highest in the 1990s-manufacture IOLs, with 1289 MV/mm2, and decreased to 650, 192, 175, 47 and 1 MV/mm2 for the MA60AC, SA60AT, TFNT00, SN60WF and Clareon, respectively. |
| Even though glistening formation in today’s AcrySof material was low, the Clareon material was essentially glistenings-free. |
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