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Investigación en Discapacidad 2025; 11 (3)

The benefits of treating cataract-related visual disability

Mundo-Fernández EE, Fuentes-Cataño MC, Fabila-Maya MM, Jiménez-Rosas DF, Messina-Baas OM, Quintanar-Haro OD, Urrutia-Breton IP, Zapata-Tarrés MM, Lima-Gómez V

Language: Spanish
References: 45
Page: 122-130
PDF size: 781.89 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The main objective of cataract surgery is improving vision, and it has other effects over general health such as increasing mobility and making the patient's interpersonal relations easier, which improve quality of life. Cataracts in elder people may coexist with other ocular and extraocular diseases that cause disability, whose approach can be limited by the visual restriction that cataract causes. Since cataracts are a reversible cause of disability, treating it surgically can make easier to deal with other disabilities, so this intervention amplifies the benefit, even when comorbidities could limit visual acuity results. This narrative revision work deals with visual disability in patients with two extraocular and four ocular diseases, and outlines the benefit that could be achieved by reducing it with cataract surgery.


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