The 10 points you need to know about this pathology and its treatment.
Technological advances have made the cataract surgery It is a common surgical technique for the patient’s visual recovery.
The 10 points you need to know about this pathology and its treatment are:
- Naturally, the eye has two lenses, one external (cornea) and one internal (crystalline). When the lens becomes cloudy, it is called a cataract.
- There are pathologies that can anticipate cataract: diabetes, myopia, regular use of corticosteroids. In addition, there are congenital diseases such as rubella, which can precipitate them.
- The most common symptoms are glare, altered color and contrast vision, and progressive decrease in vision.
- In the presence of cataracts, all the structures of the eye must be studied to rule out other associated pathologies such as maculopathy or alterations in the cornea.
- By replacing the opaque internal natural lens with a transparent artificial one, you can also correct myopia, astigmatism, hyperopia and presbyopia. To do this, a calculation is carried out to determine what the ideal intraocular lens will be.
- The usual surgery is phacoemulsification, which is performed with ultrasound, dilutes the cataract, aspirates it and leaves the capsule that surrounds it ready to receive the intraocular lens.
- Additionally, there is the femtosecond laser, which performs several steps of surgery without the surgeon working inside the eye. It is a less invasive surgical procedure.
- The surgery is with topical anesthesia (drops) and of short duration. Anesthetist and cardiologist monitor the patient’s general condition. The other eye is usually operated on during the following week.
- The surgery is outpatient, visual recovery is usually rapid, although it depends on the pathologies associated with the cataract. The postoperative period is with drops.
- Although the cataract does not return, the capsule that holds the lens can become cloudy later, although this is resolved with an in-office laser.
Ophthalmologist, head of corneal transplantation, refractive surgery and cataracts, at Clínica Nano.
Source: Ambito
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