During traditional cataract surgery a single focus lens is implanted. Often this gives patients good distance vision but still requires them to wear reading glasses for near vision. However, at Helm ...

Patients with age-related macular degeneration may have “transient” adverse macular changes after cataract surgery, but these ...

About 1 in 20 people who have had a laser procedure to patch a retinal tear will have another retinal tear or, worse, a retinal detachment after they have cataract surgery, an analysis of a large ...

Patients who have a new type of lens implanted in their eyes during surgery for cataracts or to correct their eyesight have ...

The administration of low-level light therapy before and after cataract surgery relieved symptoms of dry eye, a frequent complication of the procedure. This noninvasive treatment also enhanced the ...

Cataracts, a major cause of vision problems, particularly in older adults, can be effectively treated with modern surgery.

Cataract surgery typically is performed on one eye and then the other, with procedures scheduled weeks or months apart. But getting surgery done on both eyes at once ... in Denmark to see how well ...

especially in older individuals -- after an initial cataract surgery, said Ravi Goel, MD, of Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, who was not involved in the study. "I often share this finding with ...

Cataract surgery complications increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, with notable rises in endophthalmitis, sulcus IOL, ...