Cataracts Treatment

Question by rshipley63: Once removed can “cataracts” develop again years later in a dog?
When our dog (Bischon Frise) was about 18 months old she had cataracts develop very rapidly in both of her eyes. Successful surgery was performed in Denver, Colorado, by a Veterinary Ophthalmologist. Her follow-up care – over the next 12 months – was totally positive; no negative effects from the surgery. Thankfully for nearly 10 years now she has remained ‘problem free’ but in the last month we have noticed a milky color in one eye, with some development in the other. She has an appointment March 25th with her Vet. Our question is: has anyone ran into the similar situation? Thank You, in advance, for all positive feed back. By sharing [your] experiences we will then have additional “tools” to evaluate and compare (with her doctors recommendation) to help and support her.

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Answer by Troll Patrol
What your dog had were most likely genetic juvenile cataracts. Cataracts do not grow back as the surgery removed the lens where they form. What you are seeing is probably some opacity caused by nuclear sclerosis, which is a normal part of the aging process. It generally does not cause blindness & is not painful, just a normal part of the aging process. Good luck!

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Question by newsbusters.org: Will you miss our health care system once the government takes it?
Let’s look at this rationing of health care, what some advocates may call a “conservative lie.” Victims of this system don’t believe it’s a lie. Take, for example, Lindsey McCreith[ii], a Canadian with a brain tumor. He would have been forced to wait nearly a year for surgery in Canada, thus he had to fly to Buffalo, NY, to a capitalist hospital for lifesaving surgery paid for out of his own pocket. Or check with Dunil Almeida[iii] a man whose bowel cancer went undetected for 18 months by the NHS despite his 50—yes, fifty—visits to various government doctors. Not to mention women dying of cancer while waiting for treatments,[iv] blind women being refused treatment,[1] and legions of other complaints that abound in “universal” health care systems in Europe.
“But, Will, that’s anecdotal!” Alright, fair enough. Let’s look at it empirically. In the United States 5% of patients have to wait more than four months for surgery. That’s much lower than Australia’s 23%, New Zealand’s 26%, the 27% figure in Canada, and an astounding 36% margin in Great Britain.[2] That’s between an eighteen and thirty-one percentage point difference.
Hearing aid waiting lists in England are 72 weeks[3], waiting lists for heart surgeries in British Columbia are three months,[4] transplants take nearly that long.[5] Median wait times for emergency cardiac surgery are five days,[6] cataract surgeries wait four months,[7] the University of Amsterdam says 100 patients die annually[8] on government waiting lists for heart surgery, prompting the Dutch health minister to admit in 2002 that people are dying while waiting on the government. Often head and neck cancer patients wait five months for surgery.

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34175_20070917.pdf

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Answer by War Kittens?
hell no. What health care?

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Question by Patrick: do cataracts grow across the eye or thicken uniformly all across the eye – both eyes at once?

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Answer by Duane L
They grow on the eye’s lens…..not evenly and not at the same rate for both eyes usually.

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Question by kmdtad@sbcglobal.net: Once you have a cataract removed by surgery, will it ever come back again???

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Answer by gangadharan_nair
A cataract is a congenital or degenerative opacity of the lens. The main symptom is gradual, painless vision blurring. Diagnosis is by ophthalmoscopy and slit-lamp examination. Treatment is surgical removal and placement of an intraocular lens.
Cataract surgery is usually recommended for people who have loss of vision or vision abnormalities caused by clouding of the lens. Complications of cataract surgery are not common, and serious complications are rare. Most patients have better vision after cataract surgery.
In about 3% – 4% of cases, the entire lens cannot be removed and another procedure is required at a later date to remove all of the lens fragments. Most of these patients still do very well. In other very rare cases, infection can occur after cataract surgery, which can lead to permanent vision problems.
Please see the web pages for more details on Cataract and Cataract removal.

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Question by apple: After cataract operation, is the patient going to see at once a brighter view? My mom was operated but still b
but still has blurred vision

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Answer by Dellow
It took me about a month to be able to focus properly, but then my vision whas 20/20.

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