All Causes of Cataract A cataract is change in the protein of the lens of the eye. This protein change causes a clouding of vision. Most cataracts are related to aging. Cataracts are very common in older people. By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery. […]
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Amblyopia and Intraocular Lens Implant Choices: Should I get a Multifocal implant, Crystalens (or Trulign: corrects astigmatism), or a Monofocal Lens by Sandra Lora Cremers, MD, FACS Key questions to ask your surgeon prior to making the decision: 1. Do I have a visually significant cataract? This depends on having vision usually worse than 20/40
Cataract Surgery What to Expect During Cataract Surgery? Sandra Lora Cremers, MD, FACS Any surgery can be nerve racking, but surgery in your eye, can cause even the most austere to be more than a little anxious. Cataract surgery remains the most commonly performed surgery in the world and has the least complications by percentages
Epiretinal Membranes (ERMs) & Cataract Surgery An epiretinal membranes is a thin scar-like, semi-translucent, fibrocellular tissue It is semi-translucent tissue (composed of retinal glial cell, retinal pigment epithelial cells, fibrous astrocytes, fibrocytes, myofibrocytes, and macrophages) that grows on the inner surface of the retina. The retina is the lining at the back of the eye that is responsible
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HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO HEAL AFTER CATARACT SURGERY? What do we mean by “to heal” in cataract surgery? This can mean different things for different people. Summary: Most routine cataract surgery cases “heal” in 5-30 days, depending on a patient’s age, cataract density, eye risk factors (ie, narrow angle, short eye, previous eye
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Many are searching for a drop that will remove or “dissolve” a cataract. The best review I found online to summarize the problems with N-acetylcarnosine (NAC) is below. The facts are: 1. No randomized, double blinded, prospective studies on N-acetylcarnosine (NAC). 2. The vast majority of studies are sponsored by the company who has a vested interest.
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The Accommodating IOL – the Crystalens HD and Crystalens AO The Bausch & Lomb Crystalens was the first truly effective accommodating IOL to become available in the world. It is the first and only accommodating IOL to be approved by the United State’s FDA. Accommodation is the name of the normal, natural change in the
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Name___________________________ Date___________ Cataract and Refractive Lens Exchange Questionnaire The term “cataract” refers to a cloudy lens within the eye. When a cataract is removed, an artificial lens is placed inside the eye to take the place of the human lens that has become the cataract. Occasionally, clear lenses that have not yet developed cataracts are
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