Nuclear Sclerosis Posterior Subcapsular Cataract

10 any opacity in the lens or its capsule is a cataract except for nuclear sclerosis which is an aging change that results from compression of the oldest. In a majority of cases cataracts are congenitally acquired. Cataracts are the most common lens abnormality of sheep and goats.

Diseases of the lens. Gilmour in sheep and goat medicine second edition 2012. 11 scores for cortical and posterior subcapsular cataracts were based on weighted estimates of degree of opacity of lens area as defined by a circular grid divided into eight pie.

Scores for nuclear sclerosis were based on comparisons with standard photographs that included a five step level of severity based on opacity of the nucleus. On board the orbis flying eye hospital mandalay myanmar. This video demonstrates a phacoemulsification surgery in a patient who presented with a posterior subcapsular cataract after a prior angle closure glaucoma surgery.

Phacoemulsification in posterior subcapsular cataract with nuclear sclerosis. Nuclear sclerosis is the most common type of cataract and involves the central or nuclear part of the lens. The main types of age related cataracts are nuclear sclerosis cortical and posterior subcapsular.

Cataracts may be partial or complete stationary or progressive or hard or soft. Progression is variable but tends to occur more rapidly than in nuclear sclerosis. This type of cataract tends to occur in younger patients than cortical or nuclear sclerotic cataracts.

Posterior subcapsular cataracts psc are opacities located in the most posterior cortical layer directly under the lens capsule. Nuclear sclerosis is very common in humans. Nuclear sclerosis refers to cloudiness hardening and yellowing of the central region of the lens in the eye called the nucleus.

Nuclear sclerotic cortical and posterior subcapsular. There are three main types of age related cataracts.