Presbyopia is a natural age-related condition in which the eye loses its ability to change focus from distance to near vision. The word presbyopia, from Greek language, means aging eye. The symptoms of presbyopia usually appear in the fifth decade of life, i.e. ages 40 to 50. The first symptom most people notice is difficulty focusing at close length to read small print (assuming the eye has proper distance vision focus), particularly in dim lighting conditions. Many people compensate for this condition by holding reading material further away until they eventually may complain that their arms are “too short”. Most of these folks start to use reading glasses, often called either cheaters or readers. In people whose eyes are myopic, or “near-sighted”, the onset of presbyopic symptoms may cause them to take off their distance vision corrective lenses in order to see up close. People who need spectacle vision correction for both far and near vision often start to use one of several bi-focal lens options after the onset of presbyopia begins.
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Presbyopia and surgical treatment options
Filed Under: Eye Diseases Tagged With: Aging Eyes, conductive keratoplasty, IOL, IOLs, keratoplasty, Presbyopia, Refractive Lens Exchange, RLE
The Evolution of the Intraocular Lens in Cataract surgery
In the United States, surgical extraction of the age-related cataract is the mostperformed operation in patients above 65 years of age. A cataract is the clouding of the natural lens of the eye, which is removed in cataract surgery. Prior to the latter part of the twentieth century, the cataract surgery procedure left the eye without a lens, or aphakic. An aphakic eye typically needs very thick spectacle correction to see well, but it could generally see much better with those glasses than the same eye did prior to removal of a severe cataract. Those times have changed however, thanks to development of the intraocular lens (IOL) implant. The most important step in the evolution of the IOL occurred over half a century ago.
Filed Under: Cataracts Tagged With: Age-Related Cataracts, Cataract Surgery, Cataracts, IOL