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Precision Medicine
4 May 2021
It is an ocular pathology typical of aging in which the eyes gradually lose the ability to establish a correct focus at short distances, mainly because the lens with age becomes increasingly rigid and finds it difficult to change the way to focus light on the retina to be able to see close-up images.
Presbyopia begins to appear after the age of 40 and is usually noticed when we try to read and need to move objects away to focus properly.
Although it is a disease typical of the age, some factors contribute to its appearance, such as:
The characteristic symptoms consist of:
Symptoms are often worse in dimly lit places or with fatigue.
The ophthalmologist will perform a general eye exam, which consists of a series of tests that give them elements to assess your visual capacity and your eyes’ anatomy, among them, a refractory evaluation, to make an accurate diagnosis.
During the procedure, you’ll likely be given dilating eye drops, which can cause some sensitivity to light hours later.
Once the diagnosis is defined, they will establish the most appropriate treatment for you, but in general, it should include the use of framed glasses, contact lenses, or, in some cases, refractive surgery or lens implants.
If you wear glasses to correct other eye problems, you will now require bifocal, trifocal, or progressive lenses to correct near vision, intermediate vision, and distance vision.
Through the surgical procedure, the cornea is shaped to improve near vision in the non-dominant eye. The most used techniques are:
In specific cases, your doctor may recommend inserting a small plastic ring with an opening in the center into the cornea of one eye or removing the lens of each eye to replace it with a synthetic or intraocular lens. However, you may still need reading glasses.
Each of these surgeries have possible complications and side effects, which your ophthalmologist will explain and recommend the most suitable for you.
At ABC Medical Center’s Internal Medicine Department, we offer health care services with the highest quality and safety, from the prevention, diagnosis, timely treatment, and monitoring of infectious, respiratory, endocrinological, dermatological, rheumatic, nephrological, gastrointestinal, and hematological pathologies of both chronic-degenerative diseases and acute conditions, through a comprehensive and multidisciplinary model.
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