Visual quality assessment and comparison of two multifocal scleral lens designs
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2023
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Privado-Aroco A, Romaguera M, Valdes-Soria G, Serramito M, Carracedo G. Visual quality assessment and comparison of two multifocal scleral lens designs. Cont Lens Anterior Eye. 2024 Feb;47(1):102098. doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2023.102098. Epub 2023 Nov 30. PMID: 38040556.
Abstract
Purpose: To analyze the visual quality of a new multifocal scleral lens with a customized decentred optic zone compared to a conventional design by measuring visual acuity, contrast sensitivity function, stereopsis, subjective vision and comfort after one month of wear.
Methods: Nineteen presbyopic subjects were fitted with two multifocal scleral lens designs: a conventional multifocal and a customized decentred optical zone design. All subjects wore both scleral lens designs for one month with a two-week washout period. The main variables evaluated included high and low-contrast visual acuity under photopic and mesopic light conditions, binocular defocus curves, contrast sensitivity function and a visual analogue scale (VAS) for subjective vision and comfort.
Results: Comparing the two scleral lens designs, statistically significant differences in visual acuity were found, highlighting the improvement in more than one chart line (6 letters) for low contrast near tests under photopic light conditions with the decentred optics lens design. VAS questionnaire scores also showed a significant improvement in distance and overall subjective vision with the decentred optics lenses. Contrast sensitivity function showed an improvement with decentred multifocal lenses at all spatial frequencies measured, being statistically significant for 12 cycles per degree. No differences in stereoacuity were found.
Conclusion: Multifocal scleral lenses with a customized decentred optical zone proved to be a promising refractive correction in presbyopic subjects after one month of wear, offering good comfort and visual quality under photopic and mesopic light conditions.