There is good news for the 20% of
patients with cataracts who either have somewhat high eye pressure (IOP) or
actually have glaucoma. Researchers reporting in Current Opinion in Ophthalmology reviewed the effect that cataract
surgery had on eye pressure-or intraocular pressure (IOP) and from their
review, the data suggests 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 glaucoma, and are thinking about cataract surgery, please
share this information and schedule an eye exam at D’Ambrosio Eye Care
by calling us at 800-325-3937, visiting D’Ambrosio Eye Care, Google+
or facebook.com/dambrosioeyecare so that we can help.
D'Ambrosio
Eye Care provides eye care for patients throughout greater Boston, central and
western Massachusetts with office locations at 479 Old Union Turnpike,
Lancaster, Massachusetts 01523, 100 Powder Mill Road, Acton, Massachusetts
01720, 413 Main Street, Athol, Massachusetts 01331 and 74 Main Street, Gardner,
Massachusetts 01440.
