His patient was seen in June 2021 with a 3+ nuclear cataract and a lens thickness of 4.53 mm. The patient elected to wait and then returned in September 2022 with an intumescent white cataract.

Cataracts may appear as cloudy, white areas in the middle region of a person’s eyes. A person may not know they have cataracts until their vision becomes blurry and less colorful. A cataract is ...

Rings around every light, sometimes in a variety of colors, ... Diffraction from the lens clouding in a cataract can actually lead you to see two or more images of a single object.

A standard monofocal lens typically replaces the natural lens removed during cataract surgery for those with mild or single-vision prescriptions. They focus on either up-close, medium-range, or ...

What are cataracts? “Cataracts are very common. It is when the lens inside your eye becomes cloudy and loses its ability to focus the light on the retina and to transmit enough light to the retina,” ...

During cataract surgery, your eye doctor (ophthalmologist) removes the lens from your eye and replaces it with an artificial lens, called an intraocular lens (IOL). An IOL is made from plastic ...

Cataracts, often associated with older adults, are increasingly diagnosed in younger individuals due to factors like genetics, trauma, lifestyle choices, and underlying conditions. Early detection is ...

Authors and Disclosures. Majed Alkharashi, Walter J Stark and Yassine J Daoud* The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Maumenee 327, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA ...

KOCHI: For perfect vision, lenses in the eyes should be clear for light to pass straight through them. However, when the natural lens becomes cloudy or opaque due to cataracts, light gets ...

An intraocular lens is a small artificial lens that replaces your eye’s natural lens during cataract surgery. These lenses are typically made of acrylic, silicone, or other plastic compositions.

Surgically implanting lenses in the eyes of infants born with cataracts might increase the rate of surgical complications, said a Baylor College of Medicine eye specialist who took part in a study ...