A panelist discusses how various factors influence IOL selection for cataract surgery patients, including patient lifestyle ...

Cataract surgery removes the clouded lens of the ... without glasses. Some multifocal lenses are even in the trifocal category, which includes distance, near, and intermediate vision, the latter ...

Sonia H. Yoo, MD, a cornea, cataract, and refractive surgery specialist and a member of the planning committee for the ...

Modern cataract surgery is a safe, effective procedure, but it wasn't always this way. The earliest record dates back to the fifth century BC.

This outpatient procedure is a safe and effective way to improve your vision—and many patients say it’s life-changing.

Cataract extraction with multifocal IOL ... adults at any age. Surgery is the only cataract treatment, during which an artificial IOL replaces the damaged natural lens of the patient.

Cataract surgery is one of the oldest surgical procedures ... The initial attempts involved the creation of multifocal lenses that have concentric rings of different optical strengths so that ...

Microincision cataract surgery (MICS ... coaxial technique. Today, surgery is performed through 1 mm incision. The use of the modern MICS intraocular lens (IOL) requires incisions of 1.8 mm.

Some correct for distance vision, some correct both near and distance vision (a multifocal lens), and others (toric lenses) correct astigmatism. “Cataract surgery used to be one-size-fits-all ...

If cataract surgery requires a hospital stay ... However, it does pay for monofocal lenses. Although other lenses, including multifocal and toric lenses, are available, Medicare may not cover ...