Visual outcomes and patient satisfaction after bilateral implantation of an enhanced monofocal intraocular lens: a single-masked prospective randomized study.

"Declarations Conflict of interestThe authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. Ethics approvalThis study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of the University of Trieste RCTICB00; protocol 202/2019, January 2021. Consent to participate and consent to publishInformed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Only anonymized data were analyzed. Conflict of interest The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Università degli Studi di Trieste within the CRUI-CARE Agreement. The study has been supported by an unrestricted grant from Johnson & Johnson Vision."

"Following the Helsinki Declaration, each patient provided written informed consent before participating in the study. The Hospital Ethics Committee approved the study (RCTICB00; protocol 202/2019). The trial was retrospectively registered (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT06118944). Patients were consecutively randomized by block randomization and assigned in a 1:1:1 allocation ratio to three study arms using Sealed Envelope Ltd. 2017 [Available from: https://www.sealedenvelope.com/simple-randomiser/v1/lists]. An automatically generated unique randomization code was assigned to the randomized patient, followed by the abbreviation LE or RE to distinguish between left and right eyes, respectively."