Center for Sight, Fall River, Massachusetts
For the 20% of patients who have cataracts and who also have glaucoma or a high eye pressure, recent research is likely to bring them some relief. Researchers reporting in Current Opinion in Ophthalmology reviewed the effect that cataract surgery had on eye pressure (also known as intraocular pressure, IOP). From their review, there are sufficient data to suggest that cataract surgery provides a lowering effect on IOP in the long term and the amount of the lowering is proportional to the preoperative IOP. That is, eyes with higher preoperative IOP have the greatest average lowering, whereas eyes with IOP in the lower range of statistically normal tend to have an IOP that is unchanged from before cataract surgery, or even higher following cataract surgery.
If you or someone you know has cataracts and is thinking about cataract surgery, please share this information and ask them to call us at 508-730-2020, visit Center for Sight, Google+ or www.facebook.com/centerforsightfallriver to schedule an appointment.
Center for Sight is conveniently located at 1565 North Main Street, Suite 406, Fall River, Massachusetts 02720 for patients from Massachusetts or Rhode Island.
