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2. Cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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   Cataract surgery is the most common application of lens removal surgery, and is usually associated with lens replacement. It is used to remove the natural lens of the eye when it has developed a cataract, a cloudy area in the lens that causes visual impairment. [4] [10] Cataracts usually develop slowly and can affect one or both eyes. [4]

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

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   If so, your ophthalmologist can use a laser to open the cloudy capsule and restore clear vision. ... Cataract treatments. Whatever the cause of your cataracts, surgery is the only way to get rid ...

4. New developments in treatment for cataracts - AOL

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   NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Game-changing technology is now available for treating people with cataracts. Hartford Hospital’s Eye Surgery Center is one of a few in the state with customizable ...

5. 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 ...

6. Photodisruption - Wikipedia

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   Photodisruption came to wide use in the early 1980s for the treatment of extracapsular cataract extraction. [1] The technique is most commonly used for lithotripsy of urinary calculi and the treatment of posterior capsulotomy of the lens. [3]

7. Cataract - Wikipedia

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   Femtosecond laser mode-locking, used during cataract surgery, was originally used to cut accurate and predictable flaps in LASIK surgery, and has been introduced to cataract surgery. The incision at the junction of the sclera and cornea and the hole in capsule during capsulorhexis, traditionally made with a handheld blade, needle, and forceps ...