Cataract

The Bausch & Lomb SofPort® Advanced Optics Aspheric Lens System can revolutionize your practice. This IOL provides your cataract patients with exceptional postoperative vision quality and contrast sensitivity.

• The SofPort AO Lens is designed to be aberration free and thus reduces spherical aberration for better vision quality relative to standard spherical IOLs.¹
  
• Optical performance is unaffected by optic decentration or pupil size due to uniform center-to-edge power.¹
  
• More predictable and repeatable refractive outcomes with a broader patient population can be expected.

 

SofPort® Advanced Optics Aspheric Lens System

The first and only IOL with two aspheric surfaces for optimal visual outcomes

Unlike competitive aspheric lenses, each aspheric surface of the Bausch & Lomb SofPort^® Advanced Optics Aspheric Lens contributes to consistent optical performance. Newer-generation silicone with proven biocompatibility^2-4 provides further assurance for exceptional post-operative outcomes.

• Uniform power from center to edge will not introduce higher-order aberrations (HOA) if decentered.¹
  
• By design, asymmetrical biconvex optics with a steeper anterior surface and low refractive index minimize surface-reflected glare and unwanted optical images.⁵
• Newer-generation silicone is equivalent to hydrophobic acrylic in visual acuity, patient satisfaction, chronic inflammation, and PCO.^2,7
• 360^° anterior/posterior square-edge optic minimizes cell migration and provides PCO rates equivalent to acrylic.⁵

The new SofPort AO Lens with Violet Shield Technology preserves sight day and night by taking a new approach to blocking harmful light rays.

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Easy-Load Lens Delivery System

The Revolutionary Bausch & Lomb SofPort® AO Lens Insertion System Featuring the Easy-Load Inserter
It's "easy" to achieve improved surgical efficiency

 

Now you've got one less thing to worry about during cataract surgery. The revolutionary Bausch & Lomb Easy-Load Lens Delivery System allows you to load the lens into the inserter without any physical contact with the lens. It sets a new standard for ease of use that translates into reduced surgical times and more predictable, reliable lens delivery. More importantly, by eliminating lens-loading difficulties, you can reduce stress in the operating room.

The Easy-Load Lens Delivery System is an integral part of the Bausch & Lomb SofPort^® System that also includes the SofPort Advanced Optics IOL. Together, the Easy-Load Lens Delivery System and the SofPort Advanced Optics IOL deliver a "resolution revolution" for cataract patients.

Designed for use with the LI61AO 3-piece intraocular lens, the Easy-Load Lens Delivery System is comprised of a syringe-shaped body and tip, with a plunger, drawer and haptic puller. It is a sterile, single-use device that is designed to be placed into the eye with one continuous forward motion through a sub 3.0-mm incision ... it's really as easy as 1-2-3.

One-motion insertion

1. Load the lens case into the syringe body
2. Close the lens drawer
3. Advance the plunger and deliver the lens

Click here to see full directions for use

 

New Technology Intraocular Lens (NTIOL) Classification

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have granted New Technology Intraocular Lens (NTIOL) classification to the SofPort AO IOL and SofPort AO IOL with Violet Shield Technology. Both IOLs gained inclusion by demonstrating the same or greater qualitative and quantitative clinical benefits of reduced spherical aberration as the lens that established the NTIOL subset.

Please note that the reimbursement code will be: HCPCS code Q1003, New Technology Intraocular Lens Category 3 (Reduced Spherical Aberration).

 

 

 

1. Laboratory data on file at Bausch & Lomb Incorporated.

2. Kim JS, Shyn KH. Biometry of 3 types of intraocular lenses using Scheimpflug photography. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2001; 27:533-6.

3. Hayashi K, Hayashi H, Nakao F, et al. Intraocular lens tilt and decentration after implantation in eyes with glaucoma. J Cataract Refract Surg. 1999;25:1515-20.

4. Hayashi K, Hayashi H, Nakao F, et al. Anterior capsule contraction and intraocular lens decentration and tilt after hydrogel lens implantation. Br J Ophthalmol. 2001;85:1294-7.

5. Daynes T, Spencer TS, Doan K, et al. Three-year clinical comparison of 3-piece AcrySof and SI-40 silicone intraocular lenses. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2002;28(7):1124-9.

6. Erie JC, Bandhauer MH. Intraocular lens surfaces and their relationship to post-operative

7. Abela-Formanek C, Amon M, Schild G, et al. Uveal and capsular biocompatibility of hydrophilic acrylic, hydrophobic acrylic, and silicone intraocular lenses. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2002;28(1):50-61.

* Altman G, Nichamins Lanes, et al.  Optical performance of 3 intraocular lens designs in the presence of decentration.  J Cataract Refract Surg. 2005; 31:574-585.