VIDEO: Beware of cataract in patients with normal visual acuity but bothersome straylight

FRANKFURT, Germany — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS winter meeting, Nic Reus, MD, warns his colleagues about the clinical significance of straylight, particularly in patients with no sign of vision loss.
“Straylight is something everybody experiences to some extent. If we develop a cataract or other media opacities, the amount of straylight in the eye increases, and the effect of straylight in the eye is that the contrast of the image that is projected onto the retina decreases,” he said.
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