Congenital and Inherited Cataracts J. Fielding Hejtmancik Manuel B. Datiles III Congenital cataracts are a significant cause of vision loss worldwide, causing approximately one third of blindness in infants. Roughly…
Clinical Evaluation of Cataracts* Manuel B. Datiles III Rafat R. Ansari Careful evaluation of the lens is an essential part of a complete eye examination. Cataracts (Figs. 1, 2, 3,…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
