In answer to Dr. YAMANAKA's questions
From a technological point of view, prroperties for fibers to fix IOL must be specified. Secondly, to estimate the long-term stability
in vivo appropriate testing method, preferably
in vitro, should be established. Polymer chemist's experience in practice recomends polyester fibers.
In application to intraocular stability
in vivo. In some cases, hydrophilized surface may be severely contaminated with humor components, and transparency lowered by such adsorptive coating.
IOL can be sterilized effectively by gammaray irradiation. When one persist on boiling sterilization, use to the more heatresistant plastics may be another solution.
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