FAQ

Are you or any of your relatives expecting to undergo surgery? Would you like to know more? Would you like to know what you are in for? Would you like know the process? What you can do after the surgery and what you cannot?

You will find the answers below.

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• What is cataract?

  Cataract means reduced transparency (opacity) and hardening of the eye lens that is normally clear. The cloudy lens prevents rays of light from getting through to the retina.
  A mild degree of cataract does not have to affect seeing. The following accompanying symptoms occur when cataract progresses: blurred vision, sensitivity to glaring light, increasing short-sightedness and distortion of the observed object. Lens opacity increases over time.
  Lens opacity progresses at different rates. It may take years from the initial difficulties to the complete blindness but it may also take months or decades.
  The lens is located in the eye behind the iris. A non-cloudy lens cannot be seen in the eye. The task of the lens is to focus the rays coming into the eye so that they strike on the retina. The lens consists of a capsule, lens nucleus and lens cortex. If we compared the lens to fruits, the capsule would be the peel, the lens cortex the pulp and the nucleus the stone.

• Is my cataract mature enough to receive surgery?

  Compared to today, cataract surgery was performed in a quite different way twenty years ago. By freezing it to a liquid nitrogen-cooled probe, the lens was extracted from the eye by way of a large incision.
  The surgery was connected with a number of complications and surgery results were better in patients with a very cloudy lens. Therefore, eye doctors previously recommended to perform the surgery when the eye operated on was almost blind. The cataract "needed to mature".
  The situation is quite different today. Surgery results are excellent and the percentage of complications is low.
  If there are surgery complications, they occur much more often in patients with very cloudy ("mature") lenses.
  Today, suitable time for surgery is determined by the extent of difficulties caused to the patient by cataract. If the difficulties caused by cataract make life difficult for the patient, there is no reason to postpone the surgery.
  People usually want the surgery because they:

  • cannot do their work or hobbies well,
  • cannot see to read, watch TV, sow,
  • cannot do their usual housework,
  • cannot drive a car,
  • are afraid that they will fall somewhere or bump into something,
  • lose their independence because of the vision
  • because of a thousand of various reasons that are important for the particular person.

   

• How is cataract treated?

  There are no medicines, drops, diets, exercises or special glasses that might remove the occurrence of cataract one day.
  Surgery is the only option of treatment. Mild degrees of cataract which do not cause any difficulties to the patient, do not have to be operated on. However, if cataract symptoms make it difficult to do common activities, it is time to approach to surgery. Surgery needs to be considered if the impaired vision interferes with work and with doing activities you like and if it threatens your freedom and independence of other people´s help.
  Cataract cannot be removed with laser.
  The cloudy lens is removed from the eye with an ultrasound device that gets in the eye by way of a surgical incision.

• What is an intraocular lens?

  An intraocular lens is made of plastic. It compensates the dioptric power of the removed cloudy human lens. It is put in the original human lens capsule during the surgery.
  The usual optical power of the intraocular lens is ++22 to +26 diopters and differs in different patients. The required dioptric power is determined through biometric calculation after the eye length is measured. The intraocular lens remains in the eye for whole life. Contrary to contact lenses, it is not necessary to put it out and clean.

• Do you include soft menses in the base price?

  Yes, we do.
  And not just that. You will receive Alcon AcrySof Natural yellow lens and quality Alcon protective gel at the base price of the surgery and without any extra charges. The surgery will be performed with 2.2mm microincision system.
  Don´t pay at other places for what you don´t have to at our clinic!

• What is protective intraocular gel?

  The fine structures of the eye need to be protected against damage during the surgery. Special gel (viscoelastic material) is used for this purpose.
  Don´t pay for what you don´t have to at our clinic! In NeoVize, you will receive quality Alcon eye gel in the base price and without any extra charges.

• Jaký je rozdíl mezi šedým a zeleným zákalem?

  Zelený zákal je laické pojmenování pro glaukom. Označení zelený zákal je poněkud zavádějící. Podstatou onemocnění totiž není zkalení nějaké struktury uvnitř oka. Hlavním projevem zeleného zákalu je zvýšený tlak uvnitř oka, který vede k poškození zrakového nervu. Poškození nervových vláken se projevuje zužováním zorného pole a poklesem zrakové ostrosti.

   

  Glaukom je zákeřné onemocnění. Probíhá pomalu a nepozorován. Na rozdíl do šedého zákalu, kde je možné operací vidění prakticky dokonale obnovit, je při léčbě glaukomu možno chorobný proces v nejlepším případě pouze zastavit. Změny, které nastaly v důsledku poškození zrakového nervu jsou nevratné.

   

  Glaukom postihuje dvě procenta obyvatel České republiky. Zatímco šedý zákal se na vzniku trvalé neléčitelné slepoty prakticky nepodílí, je glaukom jednou z její nejčastějších příčin.