Microscope surgery can be done in an outpatient basis. Most people do not need to stay overnight in a hospital. The patient will need a companion to assist with travel and home care after outpatient surgery. Follow up care by the surgeon is important. Many would ask what happens during a cataract microscope surgery.

Intracapsular surgery involves removing the entire lens, including the capsule through microscope surgery. In the past, cataracts were removed by intracapsular surgery in which the entire lens and lens capsule were removed. Intracapsular surgery is rarely, if ever, used today. It is more difficult and has a higher rate of complications than extracapsular procedures.

Extracapsular surgery is a procedure which consists of undergoing a microscope surgery to remove the lens, but leaving the back half of the capsule, or the outer covering of the lens, whole. High frequency sound waves, through, phacoemulsification may be used to soften the lens to help removing it through a smaller cut.

The only treatment for cataract is to undergo a microscope surgery to remove it. This is done when a person cannot perform normal activities, even with the use of glasses. For some people, changing glasses, getting stronger bifocals, or using a magnifying lens is helpful enough. Others choose to have cataract surgery. If a cataract […]

Microscope surgery is currently the only way to correct vision loss caused by cataracts. But cataracts in older adults usually do not always need to be removed. The vision loss from a cataract often happens slowly and may never become severe in such cases.

Microsurgical procedures are performed on parts of the body that are best visualized under a surgical microscope. Examples of such structures are small blood vessels, nerves, and tubes. Microsurgery uses techniques that have been performed by surgeons since the early twentieth century, such as blood vessel repair and organ transplantation, but under conditions that make […]