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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. What to Expect at Cataract Surgery - AOL

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   Roughly 25 million Americans have cataracts, and more than half of people age 80 and above either currently have them or have had cataract surgery, per the U.S. National Institutes of Health ...

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

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   More than half of adults over the age of 80 either have cataracts or have had surgery to get rid of cataracts. That’s right: You don’t have to live with them. Cataract risk factors.

5. Cataract - Wikipedia

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   Posterior capsular opacification, also known as after-cataract, is a condition in which months or years after successful cataract surgery, vision deteriorates or problems with glare and light scattering recur, usually due to thickening of the back or posterior capsule surrounding the implanted lens, so-called 'posterior lens capsule opacification'.

6. Global access to cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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   The study also shown a significant correlation between gross national income per capita and cataract-surgery rate in the countries involved. [30] In a study published in 2014, the weighted-mean regional surgery rate was found to have increased by 70% from 2005 to 2012, rising from 1,562 to 2,672 cataract surgeries per million inhabitants. The ...

7. Vermont Legislature is deciding who should be allowed to do ...

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   "When you have cataract surgery they put a new lens in the eye and take the cloudy one out," he said. "Sometimes six months, sometimes 10 years later a film will grow on the back of that lens and ...