BACKGROUND To determine the impact of cataract surgery on vision-related quality of life (VRQOL) and examine the association between objective visual measures and change in VRQOL after surgery among bilateral cataract patients in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. METHODS A cohort of older patients with bilateral cataract was assessed one week before and one to three months after first eye or both ey...

VIDAL (1886) first described cataract in young patients subject to attacks of pruritis followed by lichenification and associated with asthma. Andogsky (1914) described four cases of unclassified skin disease with cataract as 'dermatogenous cataract', and Kugelberg (1934) used the term 'syndermatotic juvenile cataract'. Brunsting (1936) reported ten cases of atopic dermatitis with juvenile cata...

BACKGROUND In Physicians' Health Study I, randomized trial results indicated no major beneficial effect of 5 years of low-dose aspirin treatment on total cataract (relative risk [RR], 0.94; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.79-1.13) or cataract extraction (RR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.65-1.01) during the period of treatment. OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of assigned aspirin treatment and posttrial, se...

Aims: To assess the 5 year incidence of cataract surgery in an older population based prospective cohort. Methods: 5 Year prospective follow up of the population based Blue Mountains Eye Study (BMES) performed in 1992. The follow up study examined 2335 survivors (75.1%) of the 3654 baseline participants. Baseline and 5 year slit lamp and retroillumination lens photographs were graded for presen...

Background: The relationship between the high activity of aldose reductase (AR) and diabetic cataract formation has been previously investigated. The purpose of the present study was to determine the preventing effect of melatonin on streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic cataract in rats.Methods: 34 adult healthy male Sprague-Dawely rats were divided into four groups. Diabetic control and diabe...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between vitamin C and cataract in the Indian setting. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional analytic study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 5638 people aged ≥60 years. METHODS Enumeration of randomly sampled villages in 2 areas of north and south India to identify people aged ≥60 years. Participants were interviewed for socioeconomic and lifestyle factors (t...

PURPOSE To clarify the pathogenesis of atopic cataract, especially to determine if there is any relationship between autoimmunity and atopic cataract. METHODS We investigated the lens epithelia obtained at surgery from 12 patients (12 eyes) with atopic cataract: from 8 patients (8 eyes) with nonatopic cataract (5 with senile cataract, 2 with juvenile cataract, and one with secondary cataract ...

AIM To evaluate factors associated with the development of strabismus after cataract extraction and primary intraocular lens implantation. METHODS The medical records of 122 patients, aged 1.5mo to 9y, who had undergone cataract extraction with primary intraocular lens implantation between January 1993 and August 2011 were reviewed. Fourteen patients (17 eyes) with strabismus before cataract ...