When should cataract surgery be performed? Experts say...

Due to the lack of knowledge about cataracts, many patients still hold the idea that “don’t worry about cataracts, wait until it is fully mature before having surgery”, and thus delay treatment again and again, or even choose to seek medical treatment only when the symptoms become serious.

How to improve the health level of the elderly, improve the quality of life of the elderly, and achieve healthy aging is particularly important. Being able to see clearly is the most basic guarantee for the elderly to enjoy a healthy life, a quality life, and achieve healthy aging.

The dangers of cataracts

Feng Ke, deputy director of the Cataract Department of Zhengzhou Aier Eye Hospital, said that the harm of cataracts is mainly caused by problems related to decreased vision. For example, most elderly people have worse physical fitness than adults and are less convenient to move. If their vision is not good at this time, they may even have difficulty walking, and going to the toilet may become a problem. Or when they go to the street to buy vegetables or go shopping, they may not be able to see things clearly or recognize people.

In serious cases, the patient may not be able to leave the guardian and may need someone to accompany him/her at all times, which causes many inconveniences in life and even some harm. In life, many elderly people suffer from falls and even fractures due to decreased vision, which endangers their health. Therefore, once adverse conditions such as decreased vision are found, if the patient is confirmed to have cataracts, treatment measures must be taken as soon as possible.

Early detection and early treatment are key

Cataracts are caused by the aging and turbidity of the lens. Strictly speaking, it is also a change of aging. Therefore, it is not easy to stop the natural course of the disease artificially, just like the graying of hair and the osteoporosis. There is no way to completely prevent it.

Of course, there are also some research mechanisms to find out whether the aging of the lens can be delayed. Therefore, some eye drops that delay the aging of the lens have been launched, but these are auxiliary effects and cannot play a decisive role. The whitening will still happen.

AIER Femtosecond Cataract

The precision of femtosecond laser technology is more reflected in the treatment of some complex cataracts, such as lens subluxation, expansion cataract, hard nuclear cataract, combined with low corneal endothelial cell density or combined with shallow anterior chamber cataract. Traditional cataract surgery methods are used to treat these difficult cases, and the probability of intraoperative and postoperative complications is relatively high; however, with the application of femtosecond laser technology, the probability of surgical success is greatly increased. By fully and comprehensively evaluating the patient's eye condition before surgery and accurately setting the various laser parameters, accurate capsulotomy and sufficient pre-cleavage of the nucleus can be achieved. As long as these two key steps can be successfully implemented, the difficulty of subsequent operations will be greatly reduced, thereby increasing the success rate of the operation and protecting the patient's vision recovery.