Sentences with phrase «cataracts do»

The cataracts do not usually progress and cause only minor visual deficits.

Inheritance with incomplete penetrance means that other factors — other genes, gene regulators, and / or environment — are involved in the process that determines whether cataracts do or do not develop in any particular dog.

Cataracts do not cause the dog any pain and usually progress slowly enough that the dog adjusts to its vision loss.

Hereditary cataracts do not occur in young Aussie puppies.

In fact, most dogs with cataracts do not need surgery, because most lens opacities in dogs (and a lens opacity is a cataract, no matter how tiny or big) are small and don't significantly interfere with vision.

All cataracts do not progress all the way to hypermature and may stay static or progress at changing rates; however, diabetic cataracts are notorious for reaching hypermaturity and creating inflammation.

Cataracts do not necessarily imply poor diabetic control.

It's also common for aging dogs to have «cloudy eyes,» which doesn't affect their sight like cataracts do.

Just because a dog's eye has a cataract does not mean that the dog must undergo cataract surgery.

Not exact matches

Yet when we find that a private company «contests» the hospital's provision of, say, cataract surgery (something they do rather well, and hence make a PbR surplus) and takes that service away from the hospital, and its subsidy for other vital services, what will he say then?

Some of these people have vision problems caused by currently untreatable diseases, he notes, but others simply because they can not afford or do not have access to relatively simple fixes such as surgery to remove cataracts (clouding of eye lenses).

And now they make that lens for over 100 other countries, and the hospital does more than 200,000 cataract surgeries a year.

When he retired, Venkataswamy decided he was going to do something about the problem of blindness in India, caused primarily by cataracts.

Placed after removal of the inflexible and less - transparent lens in patients with cataracts, accommodating IOLs can change focus — much as the natural lens does in younger people.

Perhaps DNA damage from subtle but common variations in the WS gene may predispose people to vascular disease, cataracts and diabetes, even if they don't suffer from a full - blown form of the disease.

Individuals with this condition suffer from cataracts, diabetes, heart disease and other afflictions that don't typically strike until old age.

An investigation of cattle on one ranch also found an unusually high incidence of conjunctivitis and cataracts, as did another small study of eight hares and nine cotton - tail rabbits.

A new study found that after routine cataract surgery, the improved vision led to patients experiencing significantly less dizziness, although they did not experience fewer falls.

Switching to multifocal glasses after cataract surgery may be the reason that cataract surgery did not decrease rates of falling as much as might be expected.

If ozone doesn't return to normal levels, the risk of developing skin cancer and cataracts increases from the increased levels of UV radiation that will reach the Earth.

Why don't whales develop cataracts?

«Treatment with the medication as performed in the study results in more vision improvement and less vision loss than current laser therapy alone, and it doesn't increase eye pressure or cataracts.»

«Treatment with the anti-VEGF medication as performed in the study results in more vision improvement and less vision loss than current laser therapy alone, and it doesn't increase eye pressure or cataracts.»

Interestingly, bowhead whales are believed to live up to 200 years, which puts them among the longest - living mammals, and yet they do not develop cataracts.

Structural eye anomalies (in particular, microphthalmia and coloboma), cataracts, intraocular calcifications, and posterior ocular findings have been reported in infants with presumed and laboratory - confirmed prenatal ZIKV infection; however, posterior findings have been the most prevalent.21,25,28,33,35,36,41 - 43 Case series report chorioretinal atrophy, focal pigmentary mottling of the retina, and optic nerve atrophy / anomalies.28, 34,37,41 - 43,55 Series of 20 or more infants with presumed ZIKV - associated microcephaly report ocular findings in 24 % to 55 %.28, 33,42 In one study, testing for ZIKV IgM was performed in 24 of 40 infants (60 %) with microcephaly and the results were positive in the cerebrospinal fluid in 100 % of those tested.42 The proportion of infants with ocular lesions did not differ in those with and without testing.42 In that series, first trimester maternal infection and smaller head circumference significantly correlated with the presence of abnormal ocular findings.42

Scientists have been working to get something that might help with cataracts that doesn't require surgery.

If the eye doctor you are going to see does not have all their credentials or their certifications or license is expired, you should find a new doctor to perform the cataract surgery on you.

My wife embraced the Kindle, she just had cataract surgery and it didn't go as well as it should have, leaving her with dry eyes, now using restasis drops to fix that.

Spenser has health issues like any elderly mammal, in his case: a ligament at the base of one fang sprang loose so he has a walnut - sized tumor - like thing on his jaw, doesn't seem to bother him but causes just awful bad breath; arthritis in all four corners; torn ACL on at least one hind leg; cataracts (can't hardly see) and can't hardly hear (== not afraid of thunderstorms anymore!)

He says I don't have cataracts (whatever that is).

Therefore, we typically do not schedule initial consultation and surgery for the same day for patients with cataracts.

Pit bulls are less prone to this condition but do suffer from hip dysplasia — as do the tosas — as well as from cataracts and congenital heart disease.

A breeder that will sell their dogs without papers is often a back yard breeder or commercial breeder who does not do any genetic testing and for a lower cost you could end up with a puppy that has luxating patella's, leg perthies disease, cataracts or perhaps something worse like a liver shunt or heart defect.

We do rarely see inherited cataracts in these species as well.

«The new system is more efficient and does speed the process of cataract removal,» says Dr. Brian Gilger, professor of ophthalmology with the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, and a principal investigator with the NC State Ophthalmology Research Laboratory.

Heart problems and juvenile cataracts are common genetic problems for Bouviers, so Redenbach ensures that the puppies she sells do not have signs of those issues.

Cataracts are an extremely common canine eye disease and occur in many other breeds, most of which do not have merle.

After a visit to the eye specialist, I do have a small cataract in one eye that isn't expected to grow and the other eye has a cataract not recommended for removal.

If you do not go in for surgery, both immature and mature cataracts cause inflammation in the eye known as Lens Induced Uveitis (LIU).

Persistent hyaloid arteries do appear to be inherited, but most are not associated with cataracts.

In humans, an exact replicate lens can replace the cataract, but in dogs, there are only a few types of replacement lenses, which don't fit every dog perfectly.

Diseases of the lens such as cataracts and dislocated lenses are relatively uncommon and though they result in impaired vision they don't necessarily mean the cat is blind.

For example, if your dog is blind because of cataracts, then surgery can often be done to restore or improve vision.

While primarily for the Jack Russell owner, all breeds that face diseases such as Cataracts, Ataxia, Epilepsy, Deafness, PRA... and more, will benefit from the research that is being done by the JRTRF.

Nuclear sclerosis results in a cloudy appearance to the lens of the eye but is less harmful than cataracts because it does not greatly affect the vision of your pet.

Some hereditary cataracts generally appear at an early age, and while they may or may not interfere with the dog's vision, some do progress into loss of vision.

He doesn't have teeth or a lower jaw, has a full cataract in one eye and partial in the other, and doesn't hear well.

Star - crossed puppies and kittens that did not receive an adequate diet are also prone to develop cataracts.

Agnes is starting to lose her vision because of cataracts but it does not slow her down at all, she is quite spry and agile She jumps up on the bed at bedtime and jumps out of vehicles without a problem.

Many people believe that cataract removal is done with a laser but that is incorrect!!