With advances in surgical techniques, your 1-day postoperative surgery patients will walk into your office looking normal to the naked eye. Eye patches and eye shields are no longer required, and it ...

A thorough slit lamp exam and corneal topography are required before cataract surgery to diagnose irregularities in the corneal surface. Many times, complex corneas of patients coming in for a ...

Assessing the growth of cataracts in human eyes in a notoriously subjective business, usually relying on the use of a conventional slit lamp and Rayleigh light scattering to allow direct observation ...

Three main types of lens opacity in age-related cataract are known: nuclear, cortical and posterior subcapsular cataract. Nuclear cataract is more commonly found in the elderly population and ...

Int Ophthalmol Clin. 2014;54(4):85-96. With increased risk of vitreous loss, the surgeon can be prepared with an anterior vitrector available on site. In a large center, the availability of a surgical ...

Cataracts are the single biggest cause of blindness and are responsible for almost half of all cases worldwide. A new laser probe, originally developed for the U.S. space program, has been shown to ...

people suffer from visual impairment. Cataracts account for about 33% of visual impairment and are the number one cause of blindness (more than 50%) worldwide. Cataract patients can improve life ...