OBJECTIVE To identify daily life difficulties perceived by patients suffering from senile cataract before and after second eye cataract surgery. METHODS Longitudinal prospective study with 84 patients consecutively seen within the framework of the Cataract Project, with visual acuity equal to or higher than 20/30 in the pseudophakic eye, and equal to or lower than 20/40 with the best possible...

AIMS To analyse the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics associated with second eye cataract surgery. METHODS An observational, longitudinal study of patients scheduled for first eye cataract surgery that did not involve a combined procedure was carried at two teaching hospitals and one non-teaching hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Patients were followed for 2 years after first eye cata...

Background/Aim Approaching art from the standpoint of optics and the artist’s eye pathology can sometimes explain the shift of the spectral colors in the work of some artists with cataract and aphakia. This may not be obvious in the paintings of other artists with the same eye pathology. The aim of this study was to create a timeline from the recently obtained details of the cataract surgery, h...

Introduction: Cataract is the leading cause of treatable blindness worldwide. Phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation most common surgical procedure performed for treatment cataract. The diabetic cornea has decreased corneal endothelial cell density (CED) due to dysfunction and malfunctioning repair systems. Objective: To compare mean before after phacoemulsification in pat...


 Introduction: Traumatic cataract is one of the leading causes monocular blindness in children. The management pediatric traumatic challenging; growing size affected eyes and risk amblyopia further complicate things. timing removal IOL implantation remain controversial until today.
 Case Report: A thirteen-years-old boy came with his left eye punctured by a pencil tip. He visual acui...

Background: In an effort to plan for effective community-based cataract surgical services in Igabi district of northern Nigeria, the National Eye Centre, Kaduna (a tertiary eye hospital) conducted a population-based cross sectional survey in the district. The survey was conducted in order to generate baseline data on cataract blindness in the district. Methods: A total of 2044 people out of 240...

Blindness continues to remain a major public health problem in Nepal and cataract is the leading cause. Cataract surgical coverage is relatively low in the rural areas where prevalence of blindness is high. This is a descriptive cross sectional camp based study in a remote village of Nepal, where 4 days screening of the eye disease mainly the cataract was done. The aim of the study was to evalu...

D ry eye is very common among patients presenting for cataract or laser vision correction surgery. If the dry eye is not treated preoperatively, it can reduce the quality of preoperative data and can have a negative impact on surgical outcomes. Just prior to ASCRS, we surveyed cataract and refractive surgeons about the incidence of dry eye in their surgical patients, their awareness of current ...

12 COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 28 ISSUE 89 | 2015 Most eye care staff have had the pleasure of removing the pad from a patient’s eye after cataract surgery and seeing their joy at having their sight restored. However, when the outcome of cataract surgery is discussed prior to surgery, the first thing most people think about is visual acuity or complications. Whilst these are criticall...