CATARACT II

Lusanda Vena Vuyisile Mthethwa Dinah Thaane

Mamokete Masooane Bontle Pinkwane Lerato Thulo
 INTRODUCTION

• It’s the clouding of the eye lens. Resulting in impaired vision

• The affected person will see frosty or fogged up window. Clouded vision caused by cataract
result in difficulty in reading, drive the car at night or even see the expression on another
person’s face.
• It normally affects people above the age of 55 year.
• A gradual progression of the vision problem eventually if not treated result in loss of the
eye. (www.mayoclinic.org/disease)
• In 2013, the United States had more than 22 million people who had cataracts. In 2020,
that number is expected to reach 30.1 million. Incidence increases with age; 43-year-old to
54-year-old patients have an incidence of 8.3%, while patients over 75 have an incidence
as high as 70.5%. Women are slightly more affected, with an average incidence of 26%
and men 22.6%. In 2015, 3.7 million cataract surgeries were performed in the United States
with data suggesting that the incidence of cataract surgery will continue to increase.
 PURPOSE OF
CATARACT
SURGERY
FUNCTION OF THE LENSE
• Lens: the lens along with the
cornea refracts light so that it can
focuses on the retina.

It is a procedure performed on the

eye to remove the cloudy natural
lens of the eye and replace with
artificial lens. That lens is called
Intraocular lens.
ANATOMY OF THE EYE
 THE LENS AND ITS ROLE IN VISION
Is the curved structure in the eye that bends light and focuses it for the
retina to help you see image clearly. It works much like a camera. The
crystalline lens, a clear disk behind the iris, is flexible and changes
shape to help you see the object at varying distance. As the person
grows the lens get weaker or damaged.
(www.veryhealthwealth.com/lens )
HOW CATARACT DEVELOPS AND AFFECTS THE EYE
HOW CATARACT DEVELOPS
 HOW CATRACT AFFECTS VISION
• Cataracts affect vision in multiple ways
• Decreased vision (often described as cloudy, hazy, foggy or blurry vision)
• Glare and light sensitivity
• Halos around lights
• Loss of contrast sensitivity
• Changes in color perception
• Shifts toward nearsightedness (myopic shift or increased myopia)
• Cataracts scatter and block the light as it passes through the lens, preventing
a sharply defined image from reaching your retina which results in blurred
vision
 REFERENCES
https://www.veryhealthwealth.com/lens
Marieb, Elain N Essential of human anatomy and physiology, (2015)