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...

purpose : cataract is one of the most common diseases of older ages and, at present, the leading cause of avoidable blindness in the world. along with the population growth, the rate of cataract surgeries is increasing in most countries worldwide. the number of cataract operations per million population per year is known as the cataract surgery rate (csr) and is one of the indicators introduced...

purpose: to investigate the proportion and time trend of second-eye senile cataract surgery (secs) in a high-turnover academic center in iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, samples were selected among all records of senile cataract surgery based on the international statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, 10th revision (icd-10) during four consecutive years...

OBJECTIVES To report the keratometry data of pediatric cataractous eyes (randomly selected single eye of bilateral cases; cataractous eye of unilateral cases) and to compare the keratometry data of the unilateral cataractous eye with the corresponding noncataractous fellow eye. METHODS Retrospective review of preoperative data of patients who had undergone cataract surgery before 18 years of ...

PURPOSE To investigate the awareness of cataract disease and treatment and to determine the major barriers for patients who need cataract treatment in a rural area of eastern China. METHODS A total of 251 cataract patients were selected by means of eye disease screenings throughout Jiangyan County. Questionnaires were administered after the doctor determined that the patient needed cataract s...

A six-year-old girl presented with gradual loss of vision in the left eye a year after sustaining a lightning strike while in her home. Examination revealed healed burns to her cheek, left arm, and right leg and a dense left cataract. There was no evidence of other ocular sequelae, and her right eye was normal. Cataract surgery and lens implantation were performed on the left eye with good resu...

Eye is a delicate organ of the body which provides organisms a vision. Eye is made up of sensory component such as lens, pupil, retina etc. One of the diseases which affect the human eye is cataract. Cataract occurs due to clouding of lens in the eye. Cataract is an eye disease which is responsible for vision loss and blindness. But earlier cataract detection system can provide a patient to kno...

Cataract is clouding of the eye lens that reduces the amount of incoming light and results in deteriorating vision. Blindness is thought to reach 75 million by 2020. Of these, unoperated cataract may be expected to account for at least 35 million. Thus, the burden of cataract is increasing remorselessly. Embelica officinalis is reported to have a very good antioxidant property and thus we hypot...