Epidemiologic Aspects of Age-Related Cataract
Epidemiologic Aspects of Age-Related Cataract Sheila K. West MAGNITUDE OF THE BURDEN OF CATARACT Cataract is the most common cause of blindness in the world.1 An estimated 17 million persons…
Nutritional and Environmental Influences on Risk for Cataract
Nutritional and Environmental Influences on Risk for Cataract Allen Taylor The number of associations between nutriture and eye lens cataract has burgeoned in the past decade, inspired in part by…
Pathogenesis of Cataracts
Pathogenesis of Cataracts J. Samuel Zigler Jr. Manuel B. Datiles III Introduction The primary functions of the ocular lens are to transmit incident light and to focus it on the…
Physiology of the Lens
Physiology of the Lens George Duncan I. Michael Wormstone Cataract has been a recognized debilitating visual condition since Roman times and has been the subject of intense investigations by lens…
Embryology and Anatomy of Human Lenses
Embryology and Anatomy of Human Lenses J. R. Kuszak M. J. Costello The cornea and the lens are the principal refractive elements of the eye. They are responsible for, respectively,…
Adaptive Optics
Adaptive Optics Larry A. Donoso “Imagination is more important than knowledge” –Albert Einstein (1879-1955) The history of ophthalmology has many parallels to the history of astronomy and astrophysics where advancements…
The Optics of Wavefront Technology
The Optics of Wavefront Technology Jim Schwiegerling Wavefront technology has undergone an explosive development in recent years and continues to be one of the most rapidly developing technologies in ophthalmic…
Ophthalmic Photodynamic Therapy
Ophthalmic Photodynamic Therapy Edgar L. Thomas Wendy J. Snyder Stephen Rychnovsky John S. Hill Photodynamic therapy (PDT) for the treatment of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) associated with exudative age-related macular degeneration…
Applied Laser Optics: Techniques For Retinal Laser Surgery
Applied Laser Optics: Techniques For Retinal Laser Surgery Nelson R. Sabates Felix N. Sabates Laser photocoagulation is the transfer of light energy into heat energy, which then denatures proteins and…
