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  2. 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]

  3. History of cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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    Cataract surgery is the removal of the natural lens of the eye that has developed a cataract, an opaque or cloudy area. [3] Over time, metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibres lead to the development of a cataract, causing impairment or loss of vision.

  4. Cataract - 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 the U.S. Navy Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia Slit lamp photo of posterior capsular opacification visible a few months after implantation of intraocular lens, seen on retroillumination

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

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    Cataracts are like death and (yup) taxes: Inevitable. At some point—usually as you enter middle age—most people develop this eye condition, which is a clouding of the eye’s lens that can get ...

  6. Global access to cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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    Cataracts are the main cause of blindness in Africa, and affect approximately half of the estimated seven million blind people on the continent, a number that is expected to increase with population growth by about 600,000 people per year. As of 2005, the estimated cataract-surgery rate was about 500 operations per million people per year.

  7. Not only can UV rays cause cancer in your eyes, but you could also get cataracts or photokeratitis (a.k.a. snow blindness, or a sunburn on your cornea).

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