Alcon Science Resource Library

Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) can cause devastating damage to the eye and permanent vision loss

Artificial tears are designed to lubricate the ocular surface by mimicking the natural tears through the use of various viscosity-enhancing agents, including but not limited to hydroxypropyl guar (HP-guar) and sodium…

Cataract surgery performed with high irrigation pressures result in intraoperative IOPs that are typically many times higher than the physiological IOP.

Multifocality in IOLs is achieved through refractive or diffractive optical approaches

Today’s SS-OCT Biometers employ two methods to measure the axial length: Sum-of Segments using individual refractive indices or a Mean Group Refractive Index

Cataract surgery performed with high irrigation pressures result in intraoperative IOPs that are typically many times higher than the physiological IOP.

The evolution of surgical glaucoma treatment has led to the development of procedures attempting to achieve better efficacy, but having variable complication profiles

The SHARKSKIN™ ILM forceps have been engineered in order to optimize the force necessary to grasp the ILM.

The determinates of flow rate in vitreoretinal procedures are complex, due to the unpredictable nature of the vitreous and how various parameters interact with each other.