Objective To evaluate the clinical effect of a heparin surface-modified acrylate intraocular lens (IOL). Methods Prospective bilateral randomized controlled study. Twenty age-related cataract patients (40 eyes) with the same bilateral nuclear hardness were enrolled. After phacoemulsification, one eye from each patient was randomly chosen for implantation with a heparin surface-modified acrylate IOL, as the trial group, and the other eye for implantation with a traditional IOL as the control group. One day preoperatively and 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months postoperatively, routine examinations were performed, and the flare value was measured by a laser flare meter. Paired t test was used to analyze the between-groups difference in visual acuity and flare. Repeated measures analysis of variance was performed to analyze the difference at each time point. Results The average patient age (means±standard deviation) was 67.9±8.3 years old. The differences in the preoperative best corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure, axial length, and corneal curvature were not statistically significant between the two groups. There was no significant difference in total phacoemulsification power (t=-0.37, P>0.05). At 1 day preoperatively, flare values in trial and control groups were not significant different (P>0.05). At postoperative day 1, trial eye flare values were lower than the control eye (P<0.01), and at Week 1, the trial eye flare value remained significantly lower than the control eye (P<0.05). At postoperative months 1 and 3, the trial eye flare values were not significantly different from the corresponding control eye flare (P>0.05 each). Compared with the baseline, the flare value in the trial group was increased at 1 day (P<0.05), and recovered at 1 week. The flare value in control group was increased at 1 day and 1 week (P<0.05), and recovered at 1 month. Conclusion Compared with the traditional acrylate IOL, heparin surface-modified acrylate IOL effectively reduced the short-term inflammation in the anterior chamber after cataract surgery.
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