In the 1980s, cataract was the major cause of blindness in India and was responsible for 80% of all blindness.1,2 This prompted the Indian government to launch a national cataract control programme, which succeeded in lowering the prevalence of blindness from 1.49% to 1.1%.2,3 In addition, by 2000, this programme had reduced the proportion of people blind due to cataract from 80% to 62%.4 Aravi...

PURPOSE To examine the differences in tear film parameters more than 3 months postsurgery in eyes with cataract surgery (surgical eyes) versus eyes without cataract surgery (nonsurgical eyes). METHODS 29 patients were seen at the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) who had cataract surgery by phacoemulsification in one eye more than 3 months prior to the study date and had no history...

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...

Old age is accompanied by a number of pathological eye conditions. Cataract is the most common age-related eye complication. Because the lens becomes naturally more opaque over time, aging is the most important risk factor for developing cataract, which is a major cause of blindness in the world. Cataractogenesis is also one of the earliest secondary complications of diabetes mellitus. The lens...

BACKGROUND Cataract is one of the most common eye diseases that can further cause blindness. Discovering susceptibility factors contributing to cataract development is helpful in identifying predisposed patients and improving treatment efficacy. Although proteomics technology has been used in study of protein markers related to eye diseases, few were on studies of cataract development. METHOD...

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...

To describe an unusual anterior chamber lesion found on routine eye examination of a 71 year-old Hispanic gentleman who presented for cataract evaluation. The lesion was biopsied at the time of cataract surgery and its pathology presented.A 71 year-old Hispanic gentleman presented for routine cataract evaluation. We found an unusual lesion in the anterior chamber of the right eye. The patient u...

PURPOSE China has among the lowest cataract surgical rates in Asia. This study was conducted to identify barriers to cataract surgery in rural China. METHODS All subjects having undergone cataract surgery and persons with presenting visual acuity or=1 eye due to nonsurgically treated cataract were identified in two population-based studies i...

A 5 year old boy was presented at Eye clinic University clinical center Tuzla with congenital aniridia in both eyes. Clinical examination revealed visual acuity of 0,08 without correction in right and 0.7 with -5.0 Dsph and -1.0 Dcyl Axx 109° in left eye. Opthalmologic examination showed bilateral aniridia associated with moderate cataract in the right and incipient cataract in the left eye. In...