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2. Macular edema - Wikipedia

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   Macular edema sometimes occurs for a few days or weeks (sometimes even much longer) after cataract surgery, but most such cases can be successfully treated with NSAID or cortisone eye drops. Prophylactic use of Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs has been reported to reduce the risk of macular edema to some extent. [10]

3. Ocular hypertension - Wikipedia

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   Ocular hypertension is treated with either medications (eye drops), surgery, or laser. Treatment, by lowering the intraocular pressure, may help decrease the risk of vision loss and damage to the eye from glaucoma. Treatment options include pressure-lowering 'antiglaucomatous' eye drops, surgery, and/or laser eye surgery. [4]

4. Intravitreal administration - Wikipedia

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   Steroids may be administered via intravitreal injection to treat diabetic and vasculo-occlusive macular edema, exudative macular degeneration, pseudophakic cystoid macular edema, and posterior uveitis. Common steroids used to treat these conditions include dexamethasone and triamcinolone acetonide (Triescence, Alcon Laboratories, Inc.). Steroid ...

5. Irvine–Gass syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Replacement of the lens as treatment for cataract can cause pseudophakic macular edema (‘pseudophakia’ means ‘replacement lens’). This could occur as the surgery involved sometimes irritates the retina (and other parts of the eye) causing the capillaries in the retina to dilate and leak fluid into the retina. This is less common today ...

6. Dorzolamide - Wikipedia

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   Dorzolamide, sold under the brand name Trusopt among others, is a medication used to treat high pressure inside the eye, including in cases of glaucoma. [3] It is used as an eye drop. [3] Effects begin within three hours and last for at least eight hours. [3] It is also available as the combination dorzolamide/timolol. [3] [4]

7. Intravitreal injection - Wikipedia

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   Pseudophakic cystoid macular edema [11] Macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion [11] Macular edema secondary to uveitis [11] Infections, such as endophthalmitis and retinitis [1] [10] Noninfectious vitritis [11] Sometimes, an intravitreal injection of antibiotics and steroids is given as part of routine cataract surgery. This avoids ...