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Cataract surgery has a long history in Europe, Asia, and Africa, with Chrysippus of Soli, a stoic Greek philosopher providing the earliest account. [104] Couching was the original form of cataract surgery, and was used from antiquity.
For centuries despite some documentation of primitive ECCE, couching was the main procedure for cataracts until 1747 when French surgeon Jacques Daviel, often credited as the father of modern cataract extraction surgery, performed an ECCE.
Cataract surgery has a long history dating back to ancient and medieval times. The 18th and 19th centuries saw significant advances in cataract surgery techniques. The 20th century marked the birth of modern cataract surgery, including the use of intraocular lens implants.
Cataract surgery has a long history in Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is one of the most common and successful surgical procedures in worldwide use, thanks to improvements in techniques for cataract removal and developments in intraocular lens (IOL) replacement technology, in implantation techniques, and in IOL design, construction, and selection ...
Cataract surgery may be considered one of the most successful treatments in all of medicine. With continued advancements in techniques and technology, cataract surgery has evolved into a refractive procedure rather than simply a surgical treatment of cataract.
Cataract surgery is a procedure to remove the cloudy lens of the eye and replace it with an artificial lens to restore clear vision. When was the first cataract surgery performed? The first cataract surgery was performed in ancient times, with evidence of the procedure dating back to the 5th century BC.
Modern cataract surgery truly began in the 1940s when British ophthalmologist Sir Harold Ridley created an artificial replacement lens for the eye. His discovery came while treating British airmen injured by shattering cockpit canopies during World War II.
Few operations have changed so much in recent years. Although phacoemulsification (ultrasonic cataract removal) was introduced more than 30 years ago in the United States, improvements in instruments and surgical technique have now made it the procedure of choice for all routine cataract surgery.
From humble origins with cataract couching to the use of ultrasonic energy in phacoemulsification, each milestone in the advancement of cataract surgery has had innovative physicians at its...
History of cataract surgery. N.S. Jaffe. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL, USA. DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(96)38537-0 Also ...