Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At the time of cataract surgery, many patients elect to undergo refractive surgical procedures in order to ...

Purpose To evaluate the post-operative changes in astigmatism in pseudophakic eyes in children. Only eyes with astigmatism of 3.0 D or more were included in the study. Methods The charts of children ...

We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 46 children (67 eyes), aged 2 months to 12 years, who had undergone nontraumatic cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation between 1996 ...

Astigmatism management at the time of cataract surgery is something that, in my opinion, all surgeons should be comfortable addressing. Whether you treat it with a blade, laser, or intraocular lens ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Irregular astigmatism is a term often used to refer to any type of higher-order aberration that cannot be ...

Using preoperative corneal topography to guide the approach, the cataract surgeon has several options to treat corneal astigmatism at the time of cataract surgery. By measuring the amount and axis of ...

Innovations in eye surgery, like Lasik, have given hundreds of thousands of people better vision. But so many are still left out, because they have an eye condition like astigmatism, that can't be ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I need to have cataract surgery, but I also have astigmatism. Is it possible to have them both fixed at the same time? If so, what will the recovery be like? ANSWER: In many cases, ...

An expert MD reveals clear insights into cataract surgery, spotlighting the breakthroughs in treatment: "We live in a time of ...

Astigmatism is a term that refers to an imperfection in the shape of the cornea. Rather than being a clear, round dome to cover the iris and the pupil of the eye in ...

Astigmatism is a common eye condition where the cornea (outermost eye layer) is irregular. The cornea is usually round like a sphere, but people with astigmatism have oval-shaped corneas. This shape ...

Q: I wear corrective glasses for astigmatism, but I don’t really understand what astigmatism is. A: Astigmatism means that the cornea of the eye has an irregular shape. The cornea is the clear ...