Cataratas - Clinica Oftalmológica Vejarano Laser Vision - LaserVision

What is cataract?

Cataract is the gradual clouding of the lens (the eye's natural lens). Starts from 50 years of age, manifested by a progressive decrease of visual acuity, as a veil that is blocking the view until the person can’t perform longer activities.

Symptoms of cataract

• Light Sensitivity
  

• Poor night vision
  

• Double vision in one eye
  

• Need more light for reading
  

• Vision yellowish and opaque
  

What causes cataracts?

• Family history
  

• Medical problems such as diabetes
  

• Ocular trauma
  

• Medications, especially steroids
  

• Radiation
  

• Sun exposure
  

How to correct?
His treatment is an outpatient surgery in which the clouded lens is removed and replaced by an intraocular lens transparent, previously graduated, who stays in the eye for the rest of his life. Is needed intraocular lens calculation before surgery (IOL Master / Eco + Lio).

We operate without scalpel with the latest technology infiniti ozil IP (phacoemulsification), which reduces the operating time to 12 minutes, to 2.2 mm incision, sutureless, painless, with a foldable intraocular lens and visual recovery to 24 hrs post-operative, in our modern ophthalmic operating rooms.

We are certified to use the most modern intraocular lenses such as: IQ aspheric, toric and multifocal RESTOR aspherical lenses , allowing the patient a far and near vision without glasses, also used to treat farsightedness (presbyopia).