More shocking facts about IOLs, intraocular lenses sold to people without cataracts, barbarically removing healthy natural lens simply to lose reading glasses - at huge profit to the industry.
Without cataracts this surgical procedure is termed refractive lens exchange (RLE), or natural lens replacement (NLR).
And as mentioned at the end of my 7 March post, it's not just the infamous Oculentis Mplus X lens that are problematic.
• December 2014, multinational pharmaceutical corporation Ocuentis issued an urgent Field Service Notice (FSN) and recall of its LENTIS HydroSmart intraocular lens.
• August 2016, multinational health care company AMO
* (Abbott Medical Optics) issued a voluntary recall of intraocular lenses, following the detection of an inspection equipment malfunction that resulted in a total of 737 globally distributed lenses not being fully checked prior to release. FSN2016-02: Model Numbers ZCB00, PCB00, AR40e, ZLB00, ZXR00.
• September 2017, Oculentis issued a further Field Safety Notice applying to all LENTIS IOLs with model numbers starting with L-, LU- and LS- and expiry date between January 2017 and May 2020. Allegedly the lenses which have suffered opacification due to calcification are defective due to contamination in the manufacturing process.
As a patient advocate, over recent years I have spoken with countless numbers of people who have had - or need to have - their multifocal lens(es) explanted, not only those listed above.
A bilateral explant can cost £11,000 privately, beyond what the majority of damaged patients can afford to pay, so more frequently this is happening at significant cost to the NHS.
If you have post op complications with IOLs, and need further tretament, speak to a specialist lawyer before agreeing to anything with the provider, because you may be entitled to compensation, especially if the lens is proven defective.
In addition, it is important that you report the issue to the MHRA via the Yellow Card Scheme @
yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk
NB: To do this you need to know which IOL you have, and should have been given a lens ID sticker at the time of surgery. If not, you are entitled to ask the provider for this at no cost.
Optegra market refractive lens exchange under the Clarivu brand name, claiming, '
This proven treatment, carried out thousands of times by Optegra, is a technically advanced and sophisticated development of cataract surgery, which is one of the world’s most frequently performed surgical procedures.'
www.optegra.com/treatments/lens-replacement-surgery/clarivu/
Notice the absence of the 'safe’ adjective: one truth amidst their hype, because increasing numbers of Optegra damaged patients have contacted me in recent months, who are, in my opinion, being treated no better than OE's damaged patients.
Clarivu is unconscionably promoted by Ruth Langsford, lucratively paid over the years to tell people - without caveat - '
Do it, do it, do it!'.
And regular readers will remember that I met Ruth at one of Optegra's promotional dinners in 2015, her nauseating sales pitch intended to persuade people to sign up for Clarivu surgery by the time dessert was served - and yes, she actually said, '
Do it, do it, do it!'.
Before I was 'asked to leave', I challenged Ruth, asking how she'd feel if a person who'd had surgery because of her promotion was left with damaged eyes.
She insensitively replied that it would be nothing to do with her, saying, '
It’s like promoting shampoo, it might work for me but not for them'. (recorded)
Yet no such caveat in her advertising!
www.opticalexpressruinedmylife.co.uk/ind...a-clarivu.html#13850
And this conveniently leads me back to the MHRA, which I'll discuss further in due course.
*In 2016 Johnson & Johnson acquired AMO/Abbott Medical Optics for $4,325 billion!
www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/...bbott-medical-optics
Hence the ongoing fight to expose this corrupt and dangerous industry, because Big Pharma have plenty of cash to bribe government and health care organisations we naively believed were there to protect us.
No conspiracy theory - scarily the truth
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