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Cataract surgery is an surgery performed to treat cataract by removing the natural lens of eyes that have been cloudy, and implanting a new one to restore the lens’s transparency. Patients with cataract are usually suggested to have a surgery as soon as possible, or the metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibers over the [...]
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Can-C eye drop as an advantageous alternative to cataract surgery
0 Comments | Posted by sandy in lasik vision surgery
In the past, the only way to treat cataracts is lens replacement surgery. With the invention of a soothing eye drop called Can-C, lens replacement is no longer the only treatment. As commonly known, lens surgery involves eye incision. But the newly created alternative Can-C eye drop is non-invasive. This is an essential breakthrough for [...]
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Options of IOL during cataract surgery
0 Comments | Posted by sandy in lasik vision surgery
It is commonly known that there are many options while ordering a cup of coffee. But five to ten years ago, the situation was significantly different that only cream or sugar coffee was available. This change in coffee is quite similar to that in cataract surgery. Several years ago, patients only had the option to [...]
Cataract is actually one of the commonest eye diseases around the world. Yet some people do not have clear knowledge about this eye disease even when there are some obvious signs. In an early stage, cataract patients may still be able to read small print, watch television and drive at night. This is just because [...]
Cataract surgery does not appear to worsen the course of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a progressive loss of vision due to deterioration of nerve tissue in the retina, a new study shows.
The finding, however, does not yet settle the long-standing controversy over the appropriateness of cataract surgery in eyes with this disorder, an editorial warns.AMD [...]
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Few cataract complications and their treatments
0 Comments | Posted by sandy in eye diseases
A posterior capsule opacity (PCO) is the most common among those few cataract surgery complications, including eye inflammation, infections and a dislocated IOL. The reason for a PCO comes from the lens capsule, which will be maintained during a surgery. About 20% of patients have haziness on their intact posterior capsules, so that even if [...]
Even though the cost of a cataract surgery varies from procedure types, different IOLs and cost-of-living standards, it can be as high as $4,000 per eye. Currently, single monofocal IOLs are considered to be medically necessary, since the patient always need an alternative lens for normal vision. In this case, both Medicare and most of [...]
