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Cataract Surgery

The most advanced technique for Cataract Surgery

What is Cataract?

It’s a progressive disease that consists of any opacity which develops in the crystalline lens of the eye or in its envelope, stopping the correct light pass to the interior of the eye and usually appears with age.

Who’s affected by this disease?

It may affect anyone; Cataracts do not tell sex or race apart. Studies from the Pan-American Association in Ophthalmology consider it the main cause of blindness in Latin-America.

What are Cataract symptoms?

The most frequent symptoms are: blurry vision, opaque color vision, solar lighting glow hassle, poor night vision, smoky vision, etc and obviously diminished vision that are sometimes unperceived by the affected person for sight loss tends to be slow and gradual. In the presence of some of these symptoms you should go see a ophthalmologist, because an early diagnosis can control the advance of the Cataract and disrupt sight loss.

When should you undergo a cataract operation?

t’s recommended not to wait until you’re practically blind, and let your Cataracts “grow older” before operating, because you’ll be deprived of a correct vision for a longer period of time and surgery will be more difficult, with greater risks and complications. That’s why the surgery must be planned as soon as Cataracts cause a certain degree of sight loss that might hinder your daily activities.

What’s the treatment for Cataracts?

The only possible treatment for Cataracts is surgery. Phacoemulsification, which is an advantageous technique and the traditional Extracapsular extraction, in which the eye is opened with a magnified incision, the cornea lifted, the Cataract removed and the intraocular lens introduced and seven sutures appropriately applied. The latter is subject to the usual risks of any open surgery and a slow visual recovery that might take months.

What’s Phacoemulsification?

It’s the most advanced Cataract surgery technique available worldwide, that allows a quick visual recovery of the patient.

It consists of a careful micro-incision requiring no sutures and through which a fine ultrasound-triggering instrument is introduced, which breaks and absorbs the Cataract. Right after this, a special folding intraocular lens fitting through the incision is implanted, and it expands to perfectly fit its place inside the eye.

 

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