TECNIS Synergy™ Toric II OptiBlue® PC-IOL (Intraocular Lens), is meant to offer high-quality, steady imaginative and prescient over a full vary of distances, together with far, intermediate and close to, to extend spectacle independence. These Toric IOLs compensate for corneal spherical aberration and corneal astigmatism. 1
NEW DELHI, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Johnson & Johnson Imaginative and prescient*, a worldwide chief in eye well being and a part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Units Corporations**, as we speak introduced the supply of TECNIS Synergy™ Toric II OptiBlue® PC-IOL for sufferers with astigmatism in India. TECNIS Synergy™ Toric II IOL, is a continuous-range-of-vision lens engineered for rotational stability, which locks in visible efficiency and offers high-quality imaginative and prescient1 .
Cataracts are the main reason for preventable blindness worldwide, impacting greater than 100 million eyes, with greater than 90% of individuals creating cataracts by the age of 65.2,3 Most individuals will develop cataracts in some unspecified time in the future of their life, and fashionable cataract surgical procedure is a secure and efficient remedy that has successful price of practically 98%.4 In India, practically 73% of adults 60 years and older have cataracts5 and if left untreated, trigger imaginative and prescient to deteriorate over time. Astigmatism reduces distance and close to visible acuity, imaginative and prescient high quality, and depth notion.6,7 All cataracts will ultimately should be surgically eliminated and changed with a man-made lens, known as an IOL (Intraocular lens).
Burzin Shahana, Nation Supervisor at Johnson & Johnson Imaginative and prescient, Surgical Imaginative and prescient India, stated, “At Johnson & Johnson Imaginative and prescient, we’re deeply engaged with Indian well being care professionals to scale back cataract burden by means of modern, quality-based applied sciences and merchandise. TECNIS Synergy™ Toric II OptiBlue® PC-IOL is a complicated IOL answer for cataract sufferers with astigmatism and offers sufferers the visible readability and elevated spectacle independence to enhance their present existence.” He additionally added, “The launch can even increase accessible choices physicians have to offer worth to their sufferers with astigmatism.”
New TECNIS Synergy™ Toric II OptiBlue® PC-IOL (Intraocular Lens) gives a chance to deal with each presbyopia and astigmatism on the time of cataract surgical procedure.8 It is designed to:
- Present high-quality, steady imaginative and prescient over a full vary of distances, together with far, intermediate and close to, to extend spectacle independence. These Toric IOLs compensate for corneal spherical aberration and corneal astigmatism. 1
- The posterior optic of the lens has a proprietary diffractive floor designed to appropriate chromatic aberration for enhanced distinction sensitivity and supply high-quality imaginative and prescient over a full vary of distances. The diffractive design of this lens results in excessive visible acuities throughout all distances and a steady vary of imaginative and prescient from far by means of close to, leading to elevated spectacle independence. 1
- New frosted haptic design will increase the quantity of friction between the lens haptic floor and the capsular bag to lock within the Intraocular Lens for rotational stability and visible efficiency.
In India, TECNIS Synergy™ Toric II OptiBlue® PC-IOL has been accepted by the Central Medicine Normal Management Organisation (CDSCO).
About Johnson & Johnson Imaginative and prescient*
At Johnson & Johnson Imaginative and prescient, a part of Johnson & Johnson Medical Units Corporations, now we have a daring ambition: to vary the trajectory of eye well being worldwide. By our working corporations, we ship innovation that allows eye care professionals to create higher outcomes for sufferers all through their lives, with merchandise and applied sciences that tackle unmet wants together with refractive error, cataracts, and dry eye. In communities with best want, we work in collaboration to increase entry to high quality eye care, and we’re dedicated to serving to folks see higher, join higher, reside higher.
About Johnson & Johnson Medical Units Corporations**
At Johnson & Johnson Medical Units Corporations, we’re serving to folks reside their finest lives. Constructing on greater than a century of experience, we deal with urgent healthcare challenges, and take daring steps that result in new requirements of care whereas enhancing folks’s healthcare experiences. In surgical procedure, orthopaedics, imaginative and prescient, and interventional options, we’re serving to to save lots of lives and paving the way in which to a more healthy future for everybody, all over the place.
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1 TECNIS Synergy™ Toric II OptiBlue® IOL Pack Insert
2 World Well being Group. Blindness and Impairment. https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/element/blindness-and-visual-impairment
3 Kellogg Eye Heart. Cataract. www.umkelloggeye.org/conditions-treatments/cataract
4 Imaginative and prescient Well being Initiative, Widespread Eye Issues. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/fundamentals/ced/index.html
5 Vashist P, Talwar B, Gogoi M, Maraini G, Camparini M, Ravindran RD, Murthy GV, Fitzpatrick KE, John N, Chakravarthy U, Ravilla TD, Fletcher AE. Prevalence of cataract in an older inhabitants in India: the India research of age-related eye illness. Ophthalmology. 2011 Feb;118(2):272-8.e1-2.
6 Wolffsohn JS, Bhogal G, Shah S (2011) Impact of uncorrected astigmatism on imaginative and prescient. J Cataract Refract Surg 37 (3): 454-460. 7 Learn SA, Vincent SJ, Collins MJ (2014) The visible and purposeful impacts of astigmatism and its scientific administration. Ophthalmic Physiol Decide 34 (3): 267-294.
7 8 https://www.beyondcataracts.com/cataract-treatment/tecnis-synergy-iols – accessed on 4th Nov’22 PP2022CT5406
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