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With a portfolio including the Eden and Lucidis premium IOLs, Swiss Advanced Vision (SAV-IOL) is already known for redrawing innovation boundaries in the IOL landscape. Now, the company is launching a system that brings customizable medicine to the world of cataract surgery.

SAV-IOL’s unique offering comprises a novel IOL - the Harmonis lens – and a web-based configurator.

Swiss Advanced Vision (SAV-IOL) is a Swiss manufacturer of high quality innovative intraocular lenses (IOLs) designed for cataract surgery. The company recently announced the start of a project for developing a revolutionary active intraocular lens, R-TASC (Real-Time Autofocus Servo Control), featuring real-time autofocus and wireless connectivity. Max Boysset, SAV-IOL CEO, believes R-TASC could disrupt the global IOL market and considerably improve the quality of life of millions of cataract

Restoring vision using a smart, active intraocular lens for cataract surgery

SAV-IOL (Swiss Advanced Vision) is working towards the world’s first active, electronic intraocular lens implant for cataract surgery through the R-TASC Project. This new lens represents a real leap forward in vision restoration: smart, real-time autofocus.

Current IOLs on the market suffer from optical compromises, including a limited visual accommodation range, loss of light,

As would be expected, monocular UDVA improved significantly from preoperative: 45% of eyes achieved 20/20 or better UDVA at 1 month postoperative. CDVA was 20/20 or better in 89% of eyes. Also at 1 month, monocular UIVA at 80 cm was 20/32 or better in 56% of eyes and 20/40 or better in 83% of eyes. DCIVA at 80 cm was 20/32 or better in 56% of eyes and 20/40 or better in 81%. DCIVA was also measured at 66 cm, at which distance 35% of eyes achieved 20/32 or better and 68% achieved 20/40 or bett

SAV-IOL’s Lucidis IOL combines the fantastic far vision and few photopic phenomena of a monofocal lens, with the added bonus of a high-quality extended depth-of-focus.

In some respects, monofocal IOLs are hard to beat. Other than the obvious - a single focal plane - the drawbacks are few, and compared with the current crop of diffractive multifocal IOLs, they provide unparalleled distance vision with a very low rate of visual disturbances. Neuroadaptation is rapid, and patien