PURPOSE To investigate the possible association between glutathione S-transferase GSTM1, GSTM3, GSTT1, and GSTP1 polymorphism and the occurrence of age-related cataracts in Estonian patients. METHODS Patients with cortical (155), nuclear (77), posterior subcapsular (120), mixed type (151) of senile cataract and control individuals (202) were phenotyped for GSTM1 and GSTT1 by enzyme-linked imm...

purpose : to compare visual outcome of aspheric and spheric intraocular lenses (iols) implantation in patients with age-related cataract in terms of visual acuity (va), contrast sensitivity (cs) and spherical aberration methods : in this prospective randomized interventional study, 59 consecutive cases of senile cataract who had been admitted for cataract surgery to farabi eye hospital, tehran,...

The clinical appearance of the cataract in nine phakic patients with gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina is described. The gross and microscopic examination of three cataractous lenses removed from patients 31 years to 47 years of age is reported. Clinically, the lens opacities appeared primarily along the confluence of the sutures posteriorly, interfering with vision because of their loca...

IHE subject of my address is:-" The causes and treatment of post-operativ'e distress following operation for cataract, other than that due to surgical complications." The preand post-operative management of senile cataract was discussed at the meeting of The Ophthalmological Society at Edinburgh in 1932, but most of the speakers confined themselves to discussion of surgical complications, and o...

Aim: To evaluate the relationship between quality of life associated with visual acuity and depression in patients senile cataracts before after surgery.
 Methods: The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) was administered preoperatively one month surgery to scheduled for a diagnosis cataract Yüzüncü Yıl University Faculty Medicine, Department Ophthalmology Karaman State Hospital ophthalmology ...

A 91-year old man with a history of senile cataract and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), with a platelet count of 75,000/μL, presented for phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation in the left eye. A paracentesis made at the beginning of the procedure caused a small but not unusual amount of anterior chamber decompression. Spontaneous bleeding subsequently occurred from multiple ...

A total of 80 patients with senile cataract had the anterior eye chamber depth measured optically by means of Haag-Streit's attachment II. The distance to the pupillary border was 2.59 +/- 0.05 mm (mean +/- SEM) preoperatively. It increased gradually after cataract extraction to 3.33 +/- 0.04 mm, measured 4 months after the operation. The increase of depth was the greatest in patients with a fl...

are strictly accurate. I have now done over 800 cataracts by my method, and over 1,200 cataracts altogether (including the 800) since October 1911. This number is large enough to give me confidence both in my conclusions and in my ability to reply to his criticisms. Capt. P. S. Smith and others would have us believe that there is only one correct way to extract a senile cataract. It is but fair...

The best review article on the treatment of cataracts is The Homeopathic Treatment of Incipient Senile Cataract, with Tabulated Results of one hundred cases by A. B. Norton, M.D., published in the North American Journal of Homeopathy, 1891. This was a Retrospective Study looking at the homeopathic treatment of cataracts in 295 Patients. 100 Patients were under treatment for longer than 3 months...

Gangliosides were isolated from human senile cataractous lenses by solvent extraction, DEAE-Sephadex column chromatography, and thin-layer chromatography. The content and composition of gangliosides were examined in individual lens tissues. Three predominant gangliosides, GM3, GM1, and GD1a, were tentatively identified in comparison with authentic brain gangliosides, and several unidentified ga...