Cataracts Treatment

Question by chessteachr: If a 79 year old female has a “vitrectomy” because catract fell into eye is that normal?
1st doctor did cataract surgery part of catract fell into the eye(said the middle part was super hard).Then she had to have second surgery”vitrectomy” to remove it.But in 2nd operation her new lens had to be removed.Doctor has this and that excuse.Is that grounds for medical law suit?

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Answer by Jennifer G
Actually, I work doing medical transcription for a group of eye surgeons, and I have seen it before where a piece of the original lens is retained or drops into the vitreous, necessitating the need for a pars plana vitrectomy and lensectomy. This is a risk of the original cataract surgery, but I would get a 2nd, even 3rd opinion if there have been additional complications. The fact that there was a retained lens fragment without additional complications, probably won’t make for a very strong case. (this also happened to my aunt…and they replaced the secondary lens at the time of her vitrectomy)

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Last night i fell asleep with my contacts on and this morning when i took them off to wear my glasses my left eye was irritated it was very red so i put some clear eye drops it was still bugging me a lot so i went to check my eye in the mirror and i looked closely and saw a small little white dot in my eye in the color part of my eye i thought it was like something that got in my eye so i tried removing it with my finger and it didn’t move then i realized its on my eye like a spot, I’m scared do i have cataracts? I have been wearing glasses since i was 13 im turning 17 this june, i’ve been wearing cotacts since i was 14 and a half, on july of 2007 i had my yearly eye exam and the doctor said i have astigmatism…..My uncle and both my grandmas have had cataract surgery, my dad has been wearing contacts and glasses for many many years now and hasn’t gotten cataracts so i dont know if it runs in the family or something…..please help!!!HELP!!! what do i do?