ARTIFICIAL INTRAOCULAR LENS, ALTERED NATURAL CRYSTALLINE LENS, OR REFILLED NATURAL CRYSTALLINE LENS CAPSULE WITH ONE OR MORE SCLERAL PROSTHESES FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE.

摘要

A system includes an intraocular lens (502, 702, 902) configured to replace a natural crystalline lens (102) of an eye (100). The system also includes one or more scleral prostheses (116) configured to be inserted into scleral tissue of the eye. The one or more scleral prostheses are configured to modify a structure of the eye to improve an accommodative ability of the eye with the intraocular lens. The intraocular lens could represent an accommodating intraocular lens (702, 902), and the one or more scleral prostheses could be configured to increase an amount of accommodation achievable using the accommodating intraocular lens. The intraocular lens could also represent a non-accommodating intraocular lens (502), and the one or more scleral prostheses could be configured to provide an amount of accommodation achievable using the non-accommodating intraocular lens.