- Surgery (nursing care)
Cataracts
— An opacity or cloudiness of the lens
— Increased incidence with aging; by age 80 more than half of all Americans have
cataracts
— Risk factors
— Aging (Clumping or aggregation of lens protein)
— Associated Ocular Conditions (Myopia, retenal surgery)
— Toxic Factors (Corticosteroids, smoking)
— Nutritional Factors (low antioxidants, poor nutrition)
— Physical Factors (dehydration, trauma, ultraviolet ray)
— Systemic Diseases and Syndromes (DM, MS Renal)
Clinical Manifestations
- Painless, blurry vision
- Sensitivity to glare
- Reduced visual acuity
- Other effects include astigmatism, diplopia (double vision), and color (color value
shift to yellow-brown)