Description

This video by TV360 offers you expert advice on the misnomer known as a secondary cataract, which is a haze on the implanted lens but is not a cataract.

Transcript

Chasher: Hello! My name is Chasher I’m a machine operator, I’m 69 years old and I like to know from you if I am not at risk of cataracts and would it be appear? Kerry Solomon: People often ask can cataracts go back and the answers really are no they don’t. Once they remove the remove permanently but occasionally years after the surgery the hays can develop along the membrane behind the implant that’s place in that the time of cataract surgery and that membrane as it gets cloudy patient can achieve or perceive the same symptoms that they have with the original cataract surgery. Sometimes referred to us as a secondary cataract, it really isn’t it just represents a clouding or a hays of the membrane its readily treatable in the office with the laser and it takes just a couple of minutes. There is no incisions made and really no recovery so if that second cataract and more common term is called Posterior Capsule Opacification if that develops which occurs in 15 to 40% of people three to five years after a surgery if that develops such readily treated bio eye doctor in there office the same day.