Alcon introduces Clareon PanOptix Pro IOL

Key takeaways:

• The lens will launch in the U.S. in May.
• It is designed to provide more uninterrupted light distribution and less light scatter.

Alcon introduced the Clareon PanOptix Pro trifocal IOL, which will be commercially available in the U.S. in May, for patients with cataracts, according to a press release.

The IOL is designed to provide patients with more uninterrupted light distribution across the full visual range through 94% light utilization and a 16% increase in optical image contrast between distance and intermediate vision. This will be achieved with the Enlighten NXT optical technology, delivering “the highest reported light utilization of any trifocal IOL — and the lowest light scatter,” Alcon said in the release.

PanOptix Pro, Alcon’s first presbyopia-correcting IOL available in the U.S. that uses the Clareon AutonoMe preloaded delivery system, offers IOL powers ranging from 6 D to 34 D with 2.17 D intermediate and 3.25 D near add power. The lens is available with blue light and ultraviolet filtering.

“Our team looked at hundreds of design options, ultimately landing on a targeted diffractive refinement that helped us recover 50% of light lost to scatter and reposition it to a beneficial focal point for PanOptix Pro,” Rob Scott, vice president, intraocular devices, R&D, Alcon, said in the release.

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The PanOptix Pro lens is an exciting new addition to trifocal technology.

Increased light utilization and improved intermediate light distribution are allowing patients to have seamless intermediate to near range vision. In my own clinical practice, I am also seeing patients reporting less nighttime visual disturbances and good image contrast, perhaps as a result of the 94% light utilization.

I am encouraged by the outstanding patient outcomes in our early experience, and time will tell how patients perceive this new technology.

Preeya K. Gupta, MD

Healio | OSN Cornea Section Editor

Triangle Eye Consultants, Raleigh, North Carolina

Disclosures: Gupta reports consulting for Alcon.

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