Author: Dr Asif Khokhar
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What is treament of cataract?
Is it possible to treat cataract without operation? Maybe some oral medicine or some eye drops or some exercises? There are certain things that can be done to prevent cataract formation. In the same way, cataract formation has started, its speed may be slowed down. Some examples are discussed I following paragraph. If general health…
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How cataract operation is performed?
Is it reality that the operation is performed without injection and stitching? It is a miracle of modern technology. Many times, when we ophthalmologists sit down together, we are amazed at the number of injections we used to give for operation and what kind of complications we used to encounter! In fact, as the incision…
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Corneal diseases
What is appearance of cornea when it is damaged? What are symptoms other than its abnormal appearance? If there is a minor defect, the color of your eye may appear slightly greyish. If cornea has been significantly damaged, then the eye appears white in colour. Vision deterioration is proportional to the whiteness. If inflammation is…
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What is corneal cross-linking?
?Is keratoconus curable This depends upon the stage of disease at the time of initiating the treatment. Spectacles, hard contact lenses, and intacs all can be helpful at early stages of the disease. When the cornea becomes too thin or non-transparent, then only corneal transplantation is beneficial. However, the latest method for treating it is…
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What are treatment methods for keratoconus?
?What are other methods to treat the patients with keratoconus This depends on the stage of the disease at the time of initiation of treatment. The patients are periodically carefully monitored and different treatments are given and advanced according to the progress of the disease. Following methods are used. Glasses Initially, the glasses are advised.…
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What is keratoconus?
The cornea of some has a weakness. A part of cornea starts thinning and then it starts bulging at a site slightly lower to the center of the cornea. As a result the central part of the cornea appears as a cone. From here the name keratoconus has been derived. The thinning of the cornea…