Author: Dr Asif Khokhar
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How open angle glaucoma is treated?
How is open angle glaucoma treated? The treatment of this disease depends on the stage at which the patient comes to the doctor. Nowadays laser treatment is first choice treatment at early stage of the diseases. Most patients can be successfully treated with a laser. By application of laser we open the closed pores in…
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How narrow angle glaucoma is treated?
How narrow angle glaucoma is treated? When acute congested glaucoma has been developed, thetreatment becomes almost impossible to treat. There are very few lucky ones whose eyes can be saved at this stage. If proper treatment is not given at this stage, then the eye becomes permanently blind. This attack should be treated urgently. Even…
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Is glaucoma really incurable?
It is commonly said that glaucoma cannot be cured and even if it is treated, the treatment fails! Is this true? There are actually many types of glaucoma, some of which are actually almost incurable. But the most important thing is at what stage of the disease the treatment was started! If treament started at…
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How can I know that I have glaucoma or not?
Are there any symptoms of glaucoma? Because there are different types of glaucoma, the symptoms are related to the question that what type of glaucoma is present in the patient you are talking about. To understand the symptoms and treatment, glaucoma is divided into two categories, which are as follows: Narrow angle glaucoma Open angle…
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What is glaucoma?
What is glaucoma? Glaucoma is a disease which is a major cause of blindness in many people. Glaucoma damages the optic nerve which transmits visual signals to the brain. In fact, the nerves that carry information from the retina to the brain stop working. The most important mechanism of this damage to optic nerve is…
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What is the basic defect in open angle glaucoma?
Why does this disease occur? What is wrong with the eye? At the junction of both the cornea and the iris is formed a sieve called the trabecular meshwork. The picture below shows this sieve. In different patients, due to various reasons, the holes of this sieve become closed, which obstructs the drainage of aqueous…
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Symptoms of open angle glaucoma
What are the symptoms of this type of glaucoma? This type of glaucoma is extremely dangerous. A large of patients are present in our society but most of them have not been diagnosed. The most dangerous aspect about this disease is that even though the disease has progressed considerably, the patient does not have any…
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What is the basic fault in narrow angle glaucoma?
Why does this disease occur? What is wrong with the eye? There is a filter at the junction of the cornea and the iris. It is forms a sieve which is called the trabecular meshwork. There is a system at this place that drains the material from the eye to the blood vessels. For various…
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Signs of narrow angle glaucoma: a type of glaucoma
The signs which are searched by doctor When the disease is just beginning, it is very difficult to diagnose. In practice, careful listening to the patient’s grief story is the most important thing that can lead to a diagnosis. At this stage, special to the patient’s history is the basis of the diagnosis. If the…
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After cataract
Can cataract develop again after cataract operation? Cataract can never develop again. However in some patients the lens capsule thickens and acts like a curtain behind the IOL. Technical name of this defect is posterior capsule thickeneing. Due to this curtain vision again deteriorates. Most of the people do not develop but following factors can…
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How can a patient know that cataract has become mature or not yet?
First of all, the question is, what kind of pearl is cooked? And what’s riper? No longer so important. For the first time people were behind the question that when pearls are ripe, then they have to undergo surgery and take care not to cook too much. Now the principle is that the operation should…
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How can a person know that he or she has cataract?
Major and most prominent symptom is the weakness of the vision. Many people have a weakness in distant vision, while the near vision remains quite good till even the time when the lens opacity has very much progressed. Cataracts do not cause headaches; there is no eye pain. However, many people initially develop weakness of…
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What is a cataract? Why it develops?
What is cataract? Each eye has a lens that is perfectly transparent and forms a picture of visible objects on the retina. This lens does’nt remain transparent and become opaque. This disease of the natural lens is named as cataract. Vision is affected proportionately to the decrease in transparency of the lens. You can better…
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How cataract eye surgery is performed?
It is a miracle of modern technology. Many times, when we the doctors sit down together; we are amazed at the fact in the past we used to use many kinds of injections to execute the operation. And we had to encounter what kind of complications which they caused. In fact, as nowadays, there is…
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How can a patient know that cataract symptoms have become mature or not yet?
These questions are not significant nowadays that cataract has become mature or is immature? These are matters of old days when people were always insisting on maturing of the cataract and kept on waiting. They were taught to be cautious about that it may not become hyper mature. It’s no longer so important. Now the…
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What is the difference between operations using stitching and the sutureless operations?
Basically, we are to extract the opaque lens and replace it with an artificial IOL with the help of Toric IOL surgery and Mutifocal IOL surgery. In order to extract the malfunctioning lens, older method was to give a long incision, extract lens through it, and then insert a rigid artificial lens. After all this…
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Unicef guidelines for prevention from corona virus
UnicefThe corona virus is large in size with a cell diameter of 400-500 micro, so any mask prevents its entry so there is no need to exploit pharmacists to trade with muzzles., کوئی بھی ماسک استعمال کیا جا سکتا ہے۔ کسی ماسک پر زور دینا دراصل فقط لوگوں کو گمراہ کرکے اپنا کاروبار چمکانے کی…