Surgeons meet challenges of removing rock-hard cataracts

Whether in a senior citizen with diabetes or in a young patient who suffered a traumatic injury, rock-hard cataracts pose a challenge to remove and need extra postoperative steps to ensure proper recovery.
Young or old, good vision or poor vision, it can be a surprise which patients have a brunescent cataract, OSN Cataract Surgery Board Member Sumit “Sam” Garg, MD, said. Even in patients whose vision is “passable,” in the 20/60 to 20/70 range, the lens may be more dense than it appears.
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