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What is pseudophakic?
When an eye is pseudophakic, the natural lens has been surgically removed and replaced by an artificial lens - an implant. These days the implant procedure is undertaken as soon as the opaque lens (cataract) is removed. Before this combined procedure became widely popular, with the introduction of artificial lenses, the natural lens was removed and the vision was corrected with spectacles and contact lenses- the eye being known as aphakic. *Please read senile cataracts, traumatic cataracts and congenital cataracts.
What is used to treat cataracts?
Surgery can remove cataracts. The affected lens is removed and replaced with a permanent synthetic lens called an intraocular lens.
Can you have lasik surgery after lens implant for cataracts?
Yes, LASIK can be used to "fine tune" the results of cataract surgery with lens implants. This is best performed after the eye has stabilized and after YAG laser capsulotomy if it is required. It is especially valuable to have LASIK after the newer implants that are multifocal such as the Alcon Restore lens, so that the special optics will work properly.
Can a dogs eyes have cataract sugery?
Cataracts are formed as the lens in the eye slowly hardens as a dog (or human) ages. As the lens hardens, it becomes less transparent and more milky white, impairing vision. At advanced stages, it can cause functional blindness, although the dog can usually differentiate between shadow and light. Cataracts are not life-threatening, just another function of getting older. A dog with cataracts can expect to live as long as a dog without cataracts. However, veterinary ophthalmologists can repair cataracts through surgery - the milky white lens is removed and an implant is put back to function as the lens. This can make your dog's later years much more interesting and enjoyable, as he can see again.
What is cloudiness of the lens?
Of the eye. I believe it is cataracts
Can cataracts be inherited?
Cataracts happen to everyone. It is the process through which the natural lens of your eye starts to harden and yellow (looks like when a toenail starts to harden and yellow). It starts to hinder your ability to see clearly and makes everything you look at have a dirty, yellowish appearance. It is caused by UV exposure over many years. It is easily remedied with a simple surgery where they break up and remove the old dirty lens and replace it with a clear artificial lens. Cataracts can not come back once the natural lens has been removed.
What area of the eye is the most radiosensitive?
lens cataracts could develop from damage to the lens.
How do cataracts develop?
Traumatic cataracts may develop after a foreign body or trauma injures the lens or eye.
When the lens becomes cloudy they are called?
Senile cataract
Clouding of what structure causes cataracts?
The crystalline lens becomes cloudy and opaque, resulting in a cataract.
How can be cured cataract?
Cataracts are usually treated through cataract surgery if other methods of vision improvement have failed. Cataract surgery is typically an outpatient surgical procedure and is usually very successful in restoring vision.
Can you get cataracts again after surgery removed cataract and replaced lens?
yes
