Cataract surgery, also called lens replacement surgery, is the removal of the natural lens of the eye that has developed a cataract, an opaque or cloudy...

risk of developing cataracts, or slow the process. Early on, the symptoms may be improved with glasses. If this does not help, surgery to remove the cloudy...

Cataract surgery has a long history in Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is one of the most common and successful surgical procedures in worldwide use, thanks...

Phacoemulsification is a cataract surgery method in which the internal lens of the eye which has developed a cataract is emulsified with the tip of an...

Manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) is an evolution of extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE); the lens is removed from the eye through a...

precautions. Mentions of eye surgery can be found in several ancient texts dating back as early as 1800 BC, with cataract treatment starting in the fifth...

treatment for cataracts or for correcting other vision problems such as short sightedness and long sightedness; a form of refractive surgery. If the natural...

documented form of cataract surgery. It involves dislodging the lens of the eye, thus removing the cloudiness caused by the cataract. Couching was a precursor...

develop cataracts. Their vision can still be restored with Epi-LASIK, photorefractive keratectomy, LASIK or phakic lens extraction, or cataract surgery. The...

Access to cataract surgery is very variable by country and region. Even in developed countries availability may vary significantly between rural and more...

philosopher of the second century AD gave a detailed description of cataract surgery by the couching method. The Greek physician Galen (second century AD)...

to cataract surgery a variety of optometrical tests have to be conducted to comprehensively analyse an individual's eye-sight prior to the surgery. A...

frequently after surgery for cataracts. The estimated risk of retinal detachment after cataract surgery is 5 to 16 per 1000 cataract operations. The risk...

of over 180,000 people across Africa and Asia using small-incision cataract surgery. Ruit is the founder and the executive director of the Tilganga Institute...

Fyodorov began to use Ridley's intraocular lenses in his treatment of cataract. At first he used lenses manufactured by the Rayner company in England...

LASIK surgery find rates of patient satisfaction between 92 and 98 percent. In March 2008, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery published...

Cataract & Refractive Surgery. 33 (12): 2028–2034. doi:10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.07.024. PMID 18053899. S2CID 1886316. Evelyn A. Paysse: Refractive surgery...

encompassed modern oral surgery, cosmetic surgery, sutures, ligatures, amputations, tonsillectomies, mastectomies, cataract surgeries, lithotomies, hernia...

infection. It is a possible complication of all intraocular surgeries, particularly cataract surgery, and can result in loss of vision or loss of the eye itself...

disease, surgery, neovascularization, tumours and use of steroid and sulfa drugs. Risk factors for secondary glaucoma include uveitis, cataract surgery and...

/kæpsuː'lɑːtəmi/) is a type of eye surgery in which an incision is made into the capsule of the crystalline lens of the eye. In modern cataract operations, the lens...

resemble a funnel, and come in a variety of sizes. For ophthalmic surgery such as cataract surgery, a speculum designed to retract the eyelids is used. In veterinary...

absence of the lens of the eye, due to surgical removal, such as in cataract surgery, a perforating wound or ulcer, or congenital anomaly. It causes a loss...

N. Abrams, 1989. Gruener, Anna (1 May 2015). "The effect of cataracts and cataract surgery on Claude Monet". British Journal of General Practice. 65 (634):...

implanted into eyes after the eye's natural lens has been removed during cataract surgery are known as pseudophakic. Phakic intraocular lenses are indicated...

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central anterior part of the capsule of the lens from the eye during cataract surgery by shear and tensile forces. It generally refers to removal of the...

Astigmatism may also occur following a cataract surgery or a corneal injury. Contraction of the scar due to wound or cataract extraction causes astigmatism due...

method of surgery named after him, the Ilizarov surgery Charles Kelman (Invented phacoemulsification, the technique of modern cataract surgery) Lars Leksell...

after one surgery. In cases of failure, most patients are treated with vitrectomy. Lensectomy – In some cases, a lensectomy, or "cataract surgery", is done...