Cataract Surgery

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Cataract Eye Surgery. This 3D medical animation depicts the phacoemulsification and extracapsular removal of a cataract (cloudy lens), and the placement of an artificial lens.

The lens of the eye is responsible for focusing images onto the back of the eye. It is normally transparent. As a normal part of aging, the lens begins to cloud and causes a gradual, painless loss in vision. Cataract removal is most often performed to better examine the back of the eye when monitoring for damage from certain diseases such as diabetes or glaucoma and to improve vision. There are two main types of cataract removal. The large majority of cataract surgeries are performed using the phacoemulsification technique. During the phacoemulsification technique an ultrasound probe breaks the cloudy lens into tiny fragments. The fragments are vacuumed out through a tiny incision. An intraocular lens implant is then inserted to replace the natural lens that was removed. Because the incision is tiny, stitches are often not necessary and visual improvement is usually noted relatively soon after surgery. During the extracapsular technique the cataract is removed as one entire piece. This requires a larger incision and stitches. An intraocular lens implant (artificial lens) is inserted to replace the natural lens that was removed. Recovery is usually slower, due to the larger incision. The stitches sometimes need to be removed, which is usually done in the office. After both procedures, the surgeon usually places a patch over the eye. ANCE00193

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• nucleus
• medical
• art
• animation
• animations
• blindness
• lens
• eye
• surgery
• cataract
• cloudy
• blurry
• vision
• removal
• remove
• replacement
• procedure
• artificial
• 3d
• diabetes
• phacoemulsification
• intraocular

[FunnyLooking77]

well, im 33 years old.. and i developed a cateract a year after i had retna detachment surgery. i was very nervous and even shaking when i was about to go threw this surgery but... to be honest people.... i had nothing to be shakey about... it was painless.. you dont feel anything, you see swirls of light, and no.. i didnt see very clear when they put in the inplant.. it took time. so dont be scared.. the only pain if any, is the I.V needle... and even that didnt hurt me.

[nucleusanimation]

@FunnyLooking77 Thank you for sharing your experience!

[dancer9168]

Yea certain members of my family that has had this done it takes 10-15 mins. Stitches free....that would hurt :-/

[shielapots421]

wow awhsom video ! thanks for sharing this :) so much appreciated

[shielapots421]

@FunnyLooking77 very quick too , can take only 20mins somtmes ;)

[hombreloco21]

@FunnyLooking77 do you have the silicon oil and can you see clearly after the cataract ?

thank you!

[nucleusanimation]

@BardandQueen Good luck on your surgery!

[BardandQueen]

@adisneydreamer Yes and right three weeks before my surgery day it went completely white! while the other eye went as you say wax paper on me.. yep offically blind until surgery day and for christmas one eye valentine's day. No more wax paper woo! A macoulor hole? Jeepers creepers! O_O

[adisneydreamer]

I thought I was the only one that compared it to holding wax paper in front of my eye, lol.

Mine was caused by having a maculor hole in my eye and they warned me that the cataract would come. I will have the left eye done on 8/31/11 and the right 9/7/11.

[razorslice17]

LASIK (:

[sketchup73]

my mom had surjery 4 months back, she is diabetic .

she complains of irritation in the eye, is it perfectly normal for a sucessful surgery to feel like a normal eye ?

wont the eye feel uncomfortable with a foriegn object . ?

[00alokati0]

Hi guys, im 22, just been diagnosed with cateract, but, i really have no problems with vision,...do you think it could be a misdiagnosis?