Eventually, if we live long enough, many of us will have to face the cataracts, that process in which the lens is losing flexibility and becoming opaque until partially or totally blocking the view.This hardening process usually starts from 45 years, although genetic factors or diseases such as diabetes can lead to premature appearance of cataracts; and there are also the accidents , which can even create a star in your eye , as in the two cases we will talk about next.
Although the star shape in the eye is original, the general effect is not so much, as doctors who specialize in sports trauma can testify: when you receive a direct blow, the shock wave can deform the lens , causing the opacity to form at the edges.
The patient underwent an intervention known as phacoemulsification , which involves breaking the opaque material of the lens with sound waves, and then aspirating it.an intraocular lens was placed.
The other known case of a star-shaped cataract in the eye occurred in California in 2004, when an electrician received a 14,000 volt discharge that crossed his entire body, severely affecting the optic nerve.The 42-year-old man showed up at an ophthalmologic clinic four weeks after the accident with the visual capacity of both eyes seriously diminished, with cataracts in the curious forms already mentioned.Months later he was operated surgically, the cataracts were removed and intraocular lenses were placed, and although he did not lose his sight, he did not recover it completely either.
Cataract operations are the most frequent ophthalmologic interventions in the world (more than two million are performed in the United States alone) of operations every year), however, these figures in the lens are not as common and are the result of pure chance. Given the frequency of these operations it is possible that some of the readers of this article have had an experience with cataracts, would you like to share it with us?
We invite you to read 5 ancient remedies that are still used and work.
Images: Community Eye Health
The man with a star in his eye
The first case was mentioned in 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine : a 55-year-old man, originally from Austria, went to the doctor because he looked worse and worse for an eye that had been hit nine months earlier.Upon examination, doctors found a star-shaped cataract in the eye .Although the star shape in the eye is original, the general effect is not so much, as doctors who specialize in sports trauma can testify: when you receive a direct blow, the shock wave can deform the lens , causing the opacity to form at the edges.
The patient underwent an intervention known as phacoemulsification , which involves breaking the opaque material of the lens with sound waves, and then aspirating it.an intraocular lens was placed.
The other known case of a star-shaped cataract in the eye occurred in California in 2004, when an electrician received a 14,000 volt discharge that crossed his entire body, severely affecting the optic nerve.The 42-year-old man showed up at an ophthalmologic clinic four weeks after the accident with the visual capacity of both eyes seriously diminished, with cataracts in the curious forms already mentioned.Months later he was operated surgically, the cataracts were removed and intraocular lenses were placed, and although he did not lose his sight, he did not recover it completely either.
Cataract operations are the most frequent ophthalmologic interventions in the world (more than two million are performed in the United States alone) of operations every year), however, these figures in the lens are not as common and are the result of pure chance. Given the frequency of these operations it is possible that some of the readers of this article have had an experience with cataracts, would you like to share it with us?
We invite you to read 5 ancient remedies that are still used and work.
Images: Community Eye Health
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