Category: Questions about cataract operation
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How cataract operation is performed? Eye is taken out of the body?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How cataract operation is performed? Eye is taken out of the body? [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image source=”external_link” external_img_size=”800×800″ alignment=”center” title=”The eye is not removed out of the body during surgery. How is the patient laid down? And how do doctors sit and operate? Positions are visible in these photos” custom_src=”http://www.drasifkhokhar.com/Images/Cataract/CataractImage13.jpg”][vc_single_image source=”external_link” external_img_size=”800×800″ alignment=”center” title=”Photographs taken from different…
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When should cataract surgery be performed? Right now I see enough. Why should I be operated?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] With regard to the timing of the operation, it is now a general rule that the operation will be decided on the basis of the patient’s disability. Therefore, a young patient who has to drive a car and work on a computer will be advised to have an operation immediately, even in the presence…
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What is difference between phaco operation and operation with stiches?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What is the difference between phaco surgery and operation with stitches? In the older technique to remove cataract, a large incision is made, then a rigid artificial lens is inserted through the large incision. After the procedure, the incision is closed with fine stitches. This method is even now used but only when there…
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Which weather is better for cataract operation?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The realities of the weather, although it is a bitter fact, are reality. In most people cataract surgery is not an emergency operation. Then there is the fact that the standard treatment for cataract is an expensive treatment that requires a considerable amount of money, and obviously the income of many of our people is…
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What are types of lenses? Which lens is better?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] There are two types of lenses which are implated after removal of cataract: Foldable IOL Non-foldable IOL NonFoldable lens These lenses are made up of hard material. A large incision is made to insert them. Most are now becoming obsolete. As the incision is very large so the wound is closed by stitches. Foldable…
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I have heard that there are many problems due to lens after operation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It is not that lenses cause a lot of problems. Many people get into trouble after removing the lenses. Is that true? Most of the problems that arise after the operation are usually associated with the lens. However, this is actually a huge misunderstanding. Probably only one in a thousand problem may be related…
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After cataract
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can cataract develop again after cataract operation? Cataract can never develop again. However in some patients the lens capsule thickens and acts like a curtain behind the IOL. Technical name of this defect is posterior capsule thickeneing. Due to this curtain vision again deteriorates. Most of the people do not develop but following factors…
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How can a patient know that cataract has become mature or not yet?
First of all, the question is, what kind of pearl is cooked? And what’s riper? No longer so important. For the first time people were behind the question that when pearls are ripe, then they have to undergo surgery and take care not to cook too much. Now the principle is that the operation should…
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How can a person know that he or she has cataract?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Major and most prominent symptom is the weakness of the vision. Many people have a weakness in distant vision, while the near vision remains quite good till even the time when the lens opacity has very much progressed. Cataracts do not cause headaches; there is no eye pain. However, many people initially develop weakness…
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What is a cataract? Why it develops?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What is cataract? Each eye has a lens that is perfectly transparent and forms a picture of visible objects on the retina. This lens does’nt remain transparent and become opaque. This disease of the natural lens is named as cataract. Vision is affected proportionately to the decrease in transparency of the lens. You can…
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How cataract eye surgery is performed?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It is a miracle of modern technology. Many times, when we the doctors sit down together; we are amazed at the fact in the past we used to use many kinds of injections to execute the operation. And we had to encounter what kind of complications which they caused. In fact, as nowadays, there…
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How can a patient know that cataract symptoms have become mature or not yet?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]These questions are not significant nowadays that cataract has become mature or is immature? These are matters of old days when people were always insisting on maturing of the cataract and kept on waiting. They were taught to be cautious about that it may not become hyper mature. It’s no longer so important. Now the…
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What are some of the cataract symptoms?
Major and most prominent symptom is the weakness of the vision. Many people have a weakness in distant vision, while the near vision remains quite good till even the time when the lens opacity has very much progressed. Cataracts do not cause headaches; there is no eye pain. However, many people initially develop weakness of…
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What is the difference between operations using stitching and the sutureless operations?
Basically, we are to extract the opaque lens and replace it with an artificial IOL with the help of Toric IOL surgery and Mutifocal IOL surgery. In order to extract the malfunctioning lens, older method was to give a long incision, extract lens through it, and then insert a rigid artificial lens. After all this…