Examination by the ophthalmologist

If the patient is bothered by these symptoms will consult their ophthalmologist. Sometimes he did not realize anything, because of the gradual decline of his vision, and it was his ophthalmologist in the systematic review its monitoring announce the diagnosis and find the symptoms. It has been a decline in visual acuity and the presence of cataracts.

So that is the ophthalmologist, or confirming the diagnosis of cataract, its possible causes, or the existence of associated diseases. This diagnosis is made using an instrument called a slit lamp, which can directly see the clouding of the lens. A complete eye examination is performed. The discomfort of the patient is evaluated not only by clinical examination and sometimes complementary but also a dialogue about their daily lives.

This dialogue is essential to decide on a possible intervention because all the waterfalls are not to operate and some of them are just annoying and not very scalable. They therefore fall outside of surgery. Only after a full and open dialogue taking into account the lifestyle of the patient a surgical decision can be taken. It will take account of the relationship between operative risk (small but real) and the benefit to the patient.