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Do treatments always improve vision?

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Laura D. Cook
Assistant Professor of Opthalmology, University of Virginia-Department of Opthalmology
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu  
434-924-5485

The Ophthalmology Residency Training Program at the University of Virginia was separated from Otolaryngology in 1947. Since 1978, it has been under the leadership of a full-time academic faculty. The Department currently serves as the ophthalmic referral center for central and western Virginia and parts of West Virginia, North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

Do treatments always improve vision?

The lens of your eye functions very much like the windshield of your car. Laura D. Cook, M.D., Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, explains how cataracts affect your vision.

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Host: Do treatments always improve vision?

Dr. Laura D. Cook: If the cataract is the cause of the decrease in vision or the glare symptoms, removal of the cataract or surgical correction should fix it. However, sometimes we can't see the retina to do a full evaluation or there maybe another ocular diagnosis which is causing the problem with the vision, also, in a patient who has a cataract and so sometimes removing the cataract is diagnostic and you see that the vision isn't improved and we have to look for something else or realize that, that other concomitant diagnosis is causing the problem. However, if there is no other ocular condition, removing the cataract should improve the vision.

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