{"id":3271,"date":"2025-12-31T22:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gseye.co.kr\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:52:05","slug":"%ec%8a%a4%eb%a7%88%ec%9d%bc%eb%9d%bc%ec%8b%9d-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gseye.co.kr\/?p=3271","title":{"rendered":"Cataract Surgery, Improving Vision Problems That Come with Presbyopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How should cataract surgery be improved?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Relationship Between Presbyopia and Cataracts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Eye aging phenomenon that comes after the 40s can lead to daily life discomfort. In the early stages, it is easy to mistake it as simple eye fatigue, but as time passes, reading or smartphone use becomes hindered, and symptoms appear where objects must be placed far away to be seen clearly. While this presbyopia phenomenon is a natural aging process, if not corrected at the appropriate time, vision decline can accelerate and quality of life can greatly deteriorate, so appropriate measures such as cataract surgery should be quickly considered.
Reading glasses are one of the basic methods of presbyopia correction. They can be a simple solution that does not require surgery, but if you experience severe discomfort or restrictions in sports activities, presbyopia LASIK surgery can be considered as an alternative. This surgery is a method that improves vision by ablating the cornea with laser, similar to general LASIK or LASEK surgery, with little pain and fast recovery, resulting in high patient satisfaction. However, when cataracts are accompanied, approaches other than presbyopia LASIK surgery should be explored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Causes of Cataract Development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Cataracts are a disease that occurs as lens transparency is lost, mainly caused by aging but can also appear due to various factors. This emphasizes the importance of regular ophthalmology examinations. Since genetic factors can play a role, more frequent examinations are recommended if there is a family history.
Cataract development mainly appears due to aging, but can also occur due to various factors such as trauma, inappropriate drug use, ophthalmic diseases, diabetes, excessive ultraviolet exposure, and nutritional deficiency. If trauma damages the lens capsule or optic nerve tissue, the prognosis may not be good despite prompt treatment, requiring special attention.
Additionally, there are also cataracts due to congenital factors, which are mostly caused by genetic factors, chromosomal abnormalities, congenital metabolic disorders, and intrauterine infections. Since it is difficult to identify a clear cause in most cases, early detection and active treatment are important. Considering these various causes, individualized treatment plans must be established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Main Symptoms of Cataracts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
When light passage is hindered due to lens opacity, vision becomes blurry and appears hazy. Vision decline and glare appear as main symptoms, and since these are difficult to correct with glasses, surgical treatment should be considered. Surgery is a significant process that must be carefully planned in full consultation with medical staff.
As lens opacity progresses, various visual problems can occur. Representative symptoms include seeing overlapping objects, better vision in dark places, color distortion, and severe glare in bright places. Since these symptoms cause great disruption to daily life, it is desirable to proceed with cataract surgery promptly. This surgery, which restores vision by removing the cloudy lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens, used to be performed through corneal incision in the past, but now proceeds more safely using laser technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cataract Treatment Timing and Methods<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In the early stage of cataract surgery, drug use to delay opacity progression is possible. If this method is effective, surgery can be postponed, but when vision decline is severe and there is no improvement with drug treatment, surgery should be considered immediately when vision drops below 0.5.
Cataract surgery should generally be performed after the middle stage, and if delayed, the lens hardens making surgery complex and increasing the risk of various complications. The latest laser surgical technique proceeds with surgery in real-time utilizing detailed eye information obtained through three-dimensional CT imaging. This method has advantages such as fast recovery after surgery and reducing the risk of secondary infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laser Surgical Techniques<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Surgery using the Catalys system measures and proceeds precisely at the micron level using 3D OCT and laser. This improves safety and reduces side effects, and clean and precise separation of the anterior lens capsule reduces the risk of complications.
Short incision time lowers dry eye and infection risk, and minimizing ultrasound energy can also reduce tissue damage. When fragmenting the lens, only the necessary areas are selected to minimize damage to the remaining parts, and the fragmentation range can be set more precisely with a micron-level grid pattern.
This method, which can also correct astigmatism, makes astigmatism correction amount predictable, and smooth incision surfaces contribute to improving vision quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Intraocular Lens Selection Guide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Cataract surgery usually takes 20-30 minutes, and patients recover quickly enough to go home on the day of surgery. However, if proper post-surgery care is not provided, recovery speed may slow down and the risk of side effects may increase. Therefore, careful post-surgery care is important.
Intraocular lenses are divided into monofocal and multifocal, each with its own characteristics. Monofocal intraocular lenses focus on only one distance, so wearing glasses may be necessary after surgery. On the other hand, multifocal intraocular lenses focus on multiple distances, providing clear vision without glasses, and can also correct presbyopia and vision, increasing patient satisfaction.
When selecting an intraocular lens, you should not only consider the clarity of vision, but also sufficiently consider the patient’s eye condition and lifestyle to improve both vision and quality of life.
Cataracts, one of the senile eye diseases, mainly occur with age. If this disease is left untreated, it can lead to blindness, so early detection and active cataract surgery are essential. Rather than considering it as part of aging, it is important to minimize eye discomfort, maintain clear vision, and keep eyes healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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