Guide to Vision Surgery

Cause and cost of cataract surgery: To some extent, cataracts are evitable in old people. But there are many other factors that contribute to the development of cataracts, such as exposure to intensive UV light or high-energy x-rays, cigarette smoking and tobacco chewing
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Complications of cataract surgery: Some patients may suffer floaters after a cataract surgery. In fact the procedure itself never causes floaters. These people actually have floaters before the surgery, which only become noticeable once the cloudy cataract is removed by the procedure.
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Some aspects of cataract surgery: Getting cloudy lens, cataract patients mostly suffer blurry vision. Most cataract cases are related to aging, which causes the natural lens to become cloudy. It is estimated that half of the 65-or-older population has cataracts.
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Preparation and result of cataract surgery: Cataract only needs surgical removal when the patient’s daily activities are severely affected, such as driving, reading, watching TV, artwork and so on.
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Age-related cataracts and cataract surgery: August is the Cataract Awareness Month in the United States. The American Academy of Ophthalmology takes this opportunity to propagate certain knowledge of cataracts every year.
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New Discoveries of Diabetic Retinopathy: According to some researchers in Saudi Arabia, cataract surgery can also help in slowing down the progression of diabetic retinopathy. These researchers injected bevacizumab into some patients’ eyes who received cataract surgery and found that there was a considerably low rate of diabetic retinopathy progression in the group that had received bevacizumab injection at the end of cataract surgery.
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Presbyopia causes and treatments: Presbyopia is somehow inevitable in people above 40, even if they have never suffered from any vision problem during younger ages.
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Few cataract complications and their treatments: 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.
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Cataract surgery preparation and outcome: Early signs of cataracts such as declining visual clarity may be ok. You are still able to drive, watch television and so on. But if your daily lives are severely affected by advanced cataracts that can not be corrected by eyeglasses or contacts, it is the right time to receive a cataract surgery.
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Kinds of cataract surgeries and their costs: 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.
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