Tuesday, May 1, 2018

What You Should Know About Cataract Surgery

Improving vision...
A patient undergoing cataract surgery.

Editor's note: I've had cataract surgery on both eyes, 
and it makes a world of difference.  

About 24.5 million people in the U.S. have cataracts, a vision-blurring cloudy spot on the lens of the eye, Lindsey Konkel reports on consumerreports.org.

"When you're young, the lens is clear, like a raw egg white," says Uday Devgan, MD, a cataract surgeon and professor of ophthalmology at UCLA, Konkel wrote.

"But over time, it becomes opaque,"  Devgan noted, according to Konkel.

Surgery to replace the cloudy lens with an artificial one can improve vision, Konkel noted.

For more about choices when considering cataract surgery: https://www.consumerreports.org/cataract-surgery/cataract-surgery-what-you-should-know/

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