{"id":1988,"date":"2018-04-27T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T09:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presbytie-lasik.fr\/?page_id=1988"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:34:23","slug":"cataract-intraocular-lens-surgery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/presbytie-lasik.fr\/en\/cataract-intraocular-lens-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataract & Intraocular lens surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cataract & intraocular lens surgery<\/h1>\n

Replacing the lens inside the eye with an artificial lens or intraocular implant.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>
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Cataract & Intraocular lens surgery – An introduction<\/h2><\/h2><\/div>

Cataract<\/a> is the opacification of the normally transparent lens inside your eye. Cataract surgery involves replacing this high power lens with an artificial lens or intraocular implant.<\/p>\n

We calculate the power of this implant for each eye to compensate for the optical power of the lens while associating the correction of refractive errors (myopia<\/a>, hyperopia<\/a>, astigmatism<\/a>) and possibly presbyopia<\/a>. Cataract surgery has become a refractive surgery.<\/p>\n

It is, therefore, possible to replace the crystalline lens that can still be clear with a high-tech implant to restore optical properties allowing for a post-operative correction that is suitable for most activities.<\/p>\n

Why operate on cataracts?<\/h3>\n

Because there is no medical treatment (eye drops, medications) that can cure a cataract. In the absence of surgery, the progressive opacification of the crystalline lens may lead to a decrease in vision, and a loss of your autonomy. Also, the increase in the volume of the ageing lens could be a source of increased intraocular pressure.<\/p>\n<\/div>

How do you know Cataract & Intraocular surgery is right for you?<\/h2><\/h2><\/div>

We might propose the correction of vision defects by lens surgery to any patient with a loss of accommodative power. That is to say, total presbyopia or at least 2.5 Dioptres with or without associated vision defects, whether the crystalline lens has a cataract or is clear, and provided that the results of the ophthalmic examination are, moreover, strictly normal.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Cataract & Intraocular surgery – Further details<\/h2><\/h2><\/div>

Intervention<\/h3>\n

Except in special cases, we perform the surgery on an outpatient basis, that is to say, without hospitalisation. The patient stays about 3 hours at the clinic. We do not operate on the two eyes on the same day but at 8 to 15 days apart.<\/p>\n

One hour before surgery, we dilate the pupil with eye drops. We apply anaesthesia by instilling anaesthetic eye drops. We ablate by fragmentation and then aspirate the lens through an incision that is 2 millimetres at most.<\/p>\n

We then replace the lens with the intraocular implant, whose power we have calculated beforehand. We inject it folded and then unfold and settle it inside the eye. Thanks to local anaesthesia, the patient remains conscious during the whole procedure which lasts between 10 and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

The patient leaves the clinic after having a snack. The vision in the operated eye is blurry, but you can move around. However, please depart the clinic accompanied.<\/p>\n

The cataract operation<\/h3>\n

We perform the procedure while the patient is on their back, in a sterile surgical setting and under a microscope. We consider cataract surgery a major surgical procedure because it involves incising the eye and extracting one of its internal elements, the lens.<\/p>\n