{"id":3232,"date":"2022-06-06T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T07:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2022-06-06T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T07:33:25","slug":"cataract-awareness-month-the-present-is-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/news\/cataract-awareness-month-the-present-is-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataract Awareness Month: The present is bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3233 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/05\/unnamed-10-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/05\/unnamed-10-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/05\/unnamed-10-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/05\/unnamed-10-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/05\/unnamed-10-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/05\/unnamed-10-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/05\/unnamed-10.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cataracts account for around 42% of all cases of blindness globally, making it the leading cause of blindness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defined by a clouding of the eye\u2019s lens, cataracts block or alter the journey of light to the retina, causing symptoms like faded colours and blurred vision. Though older age is a common risk factor, many others exist, including<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">diabetes,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prolonged steroid use,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eye inflammation, disease or injury,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">smoking,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">alcohol abuse, or<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hereditary influence.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently, no <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">medication <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">can cure cataracts. However, <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.touchophthalmology.com\/conference-hub\/?pagesLoaded=1&amp;post_type_filter=media_gallery,insight&amp;speciality_filter=cataract-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">modern advances in lens technologies<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, like toric intraocular lenses (IOL), mean surgery can treat it with high success rates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabeth Yeu, touchOPHTHALMOLOGY\u2019s Editor-in-Chief, shares her enthusiasm about the state of cataract surgery today, saying, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are so fortunate to experience the innovations in cataract surgery and lens technologies in the last decade.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She explains why:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA clear example of this is the toric IOL. It was only around 2005 I implanted the first generation of the toric monofocal lens implant during residency training.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, we are so fortunate to have toricity correction available on every lens platform, sometimes released simultaneously with its spherical equivalent!\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While treatments have improved markedly over the last ten years alone and surgical solutions have become highly effective, awareness and action are essential to maintaining a normal lifestyle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cataract Awareness Month takes place throughout June<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help educate the public on how to recognise it, the symptoms, types of cataracts, modern surgery available and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Elizabeth Yeu states, current technologies for cataract surgery are advanced and effective \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t stop the scientific community from improving it further:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.touchophthalmology.com\/cataract-surgery\/journal-articles\/current-challenges-in-the-postoperative-management-of-cataract-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Current Challenges in the Postoperative Management of Cataract Surgery<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.touchophthalmology.com\/insight\/highlights-from-hawaiian-eye-and-retina-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Highlights from Hawaiian Eye and Retina 2022<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.touchophthalmology.com\/cataract-surgery\/journal-articles\/combined-pars-plana-vitrectomy-phacoemulsification-and-intraocular-lens-implantation-a-review-on-the-advantages-and-limitations-of-phacovitrectomy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Combined Pars Plana Vitrectomy, Phacoemulsification and Intraocular Lens Implantation: A review on the Advantages and Limitations of Phacovitrectomy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.touchophthalmology.com\/cataract-surgery\/conference-hub\/boris-malyugin-escrs-2021-strategies-to-avoid-complications-of-cataract-surgery-in-pex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boris Malyugin on Strategies to Avoid Complications of Cataract Surgery in PEX<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.touchophthalmology.com\/cataract-surgery\/conference-hub\/garry-condon-md-ags-22-tools-for-fixing-iol-subluxation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garry Condon on Tools for Fixing Intraocular Lens Subluxation<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The present (and future) is bright for cataract treatment, and Elizabeth Yeu couldn\u2019t be more optimistic:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI relish, appreciate and am ever thankful for being an eye surgeon who has the gift to fix patients&#8217; vision through modern cataract surgery today.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">touchOPHTHALMOLOGY supports Cataract Awareness Month and its campaign to raise awareness of the symptoms and treatments available for cataract sufferers. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchophthalmology.com\/conference-hub\/?pagesLoaded=1&amp;post_type_filter=media_gallery,insight&amp;speciality_filter=cataract-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Explore our library<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of video interviews, conference highlights, journal articles, and clinical trial updates to learn more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alternatively, you can <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.touchophthalmology.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">get in touch<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to learn how you can benefit from our educational activities and regularly updated content.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>touchOPHTHALMOLOGY supports Cataract Awareness Month and its campaign to raise awareness of the symptoms and treatments available for cataract sufferers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101775,"featured_media":3233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}