More Cataracts:

I posted about cataracts yesterday and this is a cataract that I came across today.  Not only does this lens have a yellow, milky appearance but it also has these vacuoles that look like little bubbles or islands.  These cataracts are not affecting this patient too much yet so we will monitor these for now.  In the upcoming years, these cataracts will progress and affect this person's vision more significantly, at which time, cataract surgery will be considered. 

 

One of the biggest annoyances with cataracts is that most individuals have to deal with the mild symptoms of cataracts for years before they get significant enough to be removed.  Cataract surgery is an out-patient surgery and considered a minor surgery in most cases.  It is, however, still a surgery and so we wait until the cataracts and the resulting symptoms are significant enough to consider surgical removal of the cataract.