Popular beliefs regarding the treatment of senile cataract

Popular beliefs regarding the treatment of senile cataract.

OBJECTIVE To identify popular beliefs regarding the treatment of senile cataract in patients enrolled in the community health programs on eye rehabilitation. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was carried out using an interview questionnaire that was applied to 776 subjects drawn from a non-probabilistic sample in five cities of the state of São Paulo. The sample was made up of 47.2% males and ...

Senile Cataract

course of the illness varied markedly; two cases ended on the sixth day of disease and one still survives at the thirty-seventh day now. In the intermediate examples the outstanding and most tantalising feature is the tendency to periods of remission; in one case the fluid had become practically normal only to revert to its former turbidity later. rreatment in our hands has been manifestly unsu...

The treatment of senile cataract using Mucokehl eye drops.pmd

Sequelae of neglected senile cataract.

Cataract is the most common cause of blindness in the world. An attack of phacolytic and phacomorphic glaucoma as a result of neglected cataract constitutes a medical emergency that must be addressed immediately. Ocular emergencies such as these is challenging for the surgeon with guarded or poor prognosis. We describe the presentation, management and prognosis of three cases of phacomorphic an...

Senile cataract extraction and diabetes.

A study of hospital discharge diagnoses from both national data and data from a local medical centre indicates that diabetes substantially increases the probability of cataract extraction at age 40-49, about doubles or triples the probability for age 50-69, and has little effect on risk at age 70 and over. Strengths and weaknesses of the data are discussed. Other reports, generally estimating a...