[From cataract eyeglasses to the artificial lens--changes in cataract surgery].
After a brief retrospective on the millennia-old technique of luxation of an opaque lens, the radical changes happening in the past 10 to 20 years to cataract surgery are outlined as follows: Microsurgical extracapsular cataract extraction and artificial intracular lens implantation. Some of the consequences for patient and physician are shown, particularly the criteria for undergoing surgery: cataract surgery should be performed whenever the cristalline lens opacities cause marked visual impairment to the patient.
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Klinik für Augenkrankheiten, Kantonsspital St. Gallen.
D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005139:Eyeglasses / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular / Q000639:trends*; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000295:instrumentation; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology
Von der Starbrille zur Kunstlinse--Umwälzungen in der Kataraktchirurgie.