cataracts Archives

David Morrison, MD, and colleagues are studying whether to implant an artificial intraocular lens or fit a contact lens over a baby’s cornea after cataract surgery.

June 26, 2019

Study explores treatment options for babies with cataracts

Cataracts are uncommon in babies but when they occur the cloudy lenses must be removed without delay or blindness may result.

By Bill Snyder

January 25, 2018

A cataract-heart connection

Studies of alpha-B crystallin in zebrafish could ultimately lead to improved treatment for cataracts and heart disease.

By Meredith Jackson

July 29, 2015

In a zebrafish’s eye

Vanderbilt investigators demonstrate that a certain eye lens protein is evolutionarily conserved between zebrafish and rat, suggesting that zebrafish can be used as a model system to understand eye lens disorders such as cataracts.

By Sanjay Mishra

January 9, 2014

Cataract surgery helps clear clouds from patient’s vision

Suzy Gore spent the last 10 years watching her eyesight decline. Unable to see the vision chart at her doctor’s office without corrective lenses, tired of halo effects around lights and the challenge of driving at night, Gore decided to undergo laser cataract surgery.

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