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Recall Hydromax intraocular lens, Carl Zeiss Meditec

Product group Non-active implants
Reference 00499/08

Carl Zeiss Meditec informs about a recall of the Hydromax intraocular lens sterilised by ethylene oxide due to the possibility of intraoptic microvacuoles up to opalescences or opacification as a result of ethylene oxide sterilization. To date two cases lead to explantation.

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