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  2. History of cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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    Beer-type cataract knife and needle, cased, Paris, 1820-1866 A cataract surgery. Dictionnaire Universel de Médecine (1746–1748) On Sep. 18, 1750, Jacques Daviel performed the first documented planned primary cataract extraction on a cleric in Cologne. [29]

  3. Cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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    Cataract surgery and IOL implantation have the safest and highest success rates of any eye care-related procedures. As with any type of surgery, however, some level of risk remains. [7] Most complications of cataract surgery do not result in long-term visual impairment, but some severe complications can lead to irreversible blindness. [90]

  4. Manual small incision cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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    The cataract is removed from the capsule and anterior chamber using hydroexpression [Note 3] viscoexpression, [Note 4] or more-direct mechanical methods. [4] [13] [14] The extraction of the cataract must be done with due care so as not to compromise the integrity of the tunnel; the endothelium and capsule are also vulnerable to injury.

  5. What Is a Cataract? These Are the Causes, Symptoms, and ... - AOL

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    Cataract symptoms. You can get cataracts in one eye or both eyes—but they can’t spread from one eye to the other. In the beginning, you might not have any cataract symptoms. In particular, you ...

  6. Eye surgery - Wikipedia

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    Cataract surgery, using a temporal approach phacoemulsification probe (in right hand) and "chopper" (in left hand) being done under operating microscope at a Navy medical center A cataract is an opacification or cloudiness of the eye's crystalline lens due to aging, disease, or trauma that typically prevents light from forming a clear image on ...

  7. Global access to cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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    As of 2023, the cataract-surgery rate in South Africa is less than half of the estimated requirement of at least 2,000 per million population per year needed to eliminate cataract blindness. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In 2011, Lecuona and Cook identified an inadequate level of human resources in the public sector to provide care for the indigent population ...

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