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Problems in daily life activities caused by bad vision were studied in 150 patients with cataract before and 6 months after a cataract extraction. A relation was found between binocular visual acuity before surgery and the number of problems experienced (p < 0.001). After cataract extraction a ...
Withcataracts,the eye's natural lens becomes cloudy, obscuring vision. Correcting the problem was once a complex procedure requiring general anesthesia and a week of hospitalization. Today, a process called "phacoemulsification" usesultrasoundto break up the cataract and remove the tiny lens fragments ...
with about 3 million procedures performed every year. Surgery successfully restores vision loss caused by cataract in almost every case. Once the cloudy lens is removed, the surgeon implants a transparent artificial
In the past, when only contact lenses would restore binocular vision after monocular surgery, it seemed appropriate to wait until the vision in the better eye had failed. Now, with the successful im...
It was known that Apple has Zeiss lenses for correcting vision while wearing the Apple Vision Pro, but there was a surprise third option — Monovision. Here's what it means, what Apple can't correct for, and how to tell if you need to select it when you
Learn about what can go wrong with human vision and various ways we try to fix it: eyeglasses, contact lenses, and laser eye surgery. Take a quiz and see what you've learned. Human Vision Human vision is an amazing thing. It might not be as sharp as a hawk's, or have the night...
of modern day medicine. Doctors cut into the eyeball, remove the clouded natural lens and replace it with a new synthetic lens. The surgery costs a minimum of $3,200 per eye (free on the NHS for UK residents) and recovery time is one to four weeks. Here's whatcataract surgery ...
bandage soft contact lenses may be used to allow the cornea to heal or may be used to alleviate pain. They may be used in young infants or children aftercataractsurgery, with children who have very strong prescriptions, or when there is a big difference in the prescription between the two ...
Case studies Patient 1 A 61-year-old female patient presented to her family practitioner in August 2010 with dizziness, blurring of vision, and seeing lights, with a normal ophthalmic examination. She was referred to a general eye clinic where no explanation was found for her symptoms. CT ...