DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I need to have cataract surgery, but I also have astigmatism. Is it possible to have them both fixed at the same time? If so, what will the recovery be like? ANSWER: In many cases, ...

Innovations in eye surgery, like Lasik, have given hundreds of thousands of people better vision. But so many are still left out, because they have an eye condition like astigmatism, that can't be ...

We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 46 children (67 eyes), aged 2 months to 12 years, who had undergone nontraumatic cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation between 1996 ...

Light Adjustable Lens: A newer type of monofocal lens and the only adjustable lens on the market. After your eyes have healed from cataract surgery, your ophthalmologist will use UV light treatment ...

Using preoperative corneal topography to guide the approach, the cataract surgeon has several options to treat corneal astigmatism at the time of cataract surgery. By measuring the amount and axis of ...

Purpose To evaluate the post-operative changes in astigmatism in pseudophakic eyes in children. Only eyes with astigmatism of 3.0 D or more were included in the study. Methods The charts of children ...

Astigmatism management at the time of cataract surgery is something that, in my opinion, all surgeons should be comfortable addressing. Whether you treat it with a blade, laser, or intraocular lens ...