Postoperative endophthalmitis after cataract surgery is more than 17% more likely in patients with diabetes, while posterior capsule rupture during surgery is more than three times as likely ...

Once a cataract is removed, it can't come back. However, some people may experience posterior capsule opacification (PCO), which causes similar symptoms but is not an actual cataract. PCO can ...

A century ago, Theodor Axenfeld described a series of patients with congenital abnormalities of the anterior segment of the ...

Capsular tension segments (CTS) are indicated in the context of zonulysis across >4 clock hours, or any zonulysis in the context of an anterior or posterior capsular rent. The segmental support ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Posterior capsule opacification (PCO) still remains a frequent postoperative consequence of an uneventful uncomplicated ...

"Application of prophylactic antibiotics only in complicated cataract operations" -- when a tear occurred in the posterior lens capsule, which happened in 0.75% of cases -- "did not lead to a ...

Which part of the eye does cataract affect? There are three predominant forms of cataract depending on their anatomical location in the eye lens: cortical, nuclear and posterior sub-capsular (PSC). As ...

SpaMedica has opened a new NHS eye hospital in Croydon, offering cataract surgery and YAG laser treatment with referrals in ...

The pathological cascade which results in the SLAP lesion consists of a combination of posterior inferior capsular tightness and scapular dyskinesis, resulting in a ‘peel back’ phenomenon at the ...

Results: Anterior inferior capsular shift was carried out in 37 shoulders, and anterior dislocation recurred in three. In one of these, it was anterior alone, one was anterior and inferior, and one ...