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Cataract
Intraocular lens designed to restore vision
Three leading eye centers in South Africa are enrolling cataract patients into an international clinical study of an investigational intraocular lens designed to restore vision at all distances, potentially eliminating the need for reading glasses or bifocals following surgery. This new lens, the FluidVision Accommodating Intraocular Lens, has been implanted into patients undergoing surgery to remove cataracts at participating sites in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria. Cataracts, or the …