Cataract: cataract surgery, cataract removal

The results of the cataract removal are:

Improvement of the sight distinction – as a rule the patient sees better already on the next day after the operation.

Improvement of the color vision – the colors gain their natural richness and brightness.

Improvement of the quality of life – the patient can return to his usual active life already in several days.

Decrease of dependence on glasses and contact lenses – implantation of the artificial intraocular lens (IOL) instead of the dimmed natural one enables the patient to get rid of his former myopia or hyperopia.

Decrease of dependence on glasses for reading – implantation of specially designed IOL (artificial intraocular lenses) or the use of the program of “harmonious sight” enables not only to restore the far sight, but also to get rid of the glasses for short distances.

Cataract surgery. Nowadays microsurgical technology of the cataract removal enables to perform the operation in the out-patient conditions. The usual operation takes about 10 minutes.

The most tissue saving and safe operation of the lens removal nowadays is operation by the phacoemulsification method combined with implantation of the artificial intraocular lens.

The medical centre AILAS uses this very method for cataract removal.

The medical centre AILAS uses the whole range of bendable premium class intraocular lenses (IOL) of the Belgium PhyzIOL company, as well as American companies Bausch&Lomb, Alcon и AMO.

The advantages of the eye lens surgery in the medical centre AILAS are the following:

! The Swedish phacoemulsification device OS 3 of the OERTLY company is used in Ukraine for the cool phacoemulsification of the eye lenses for the first time.

• It is the most innovative and progressive technology of the eye lens removal, which means increased safety, reliability and accuracy alongside with the minimal / least incision (1.8 mm)!

! All the necessary pre-operational analyses and consultations are conducted in the medical centre AILAS.

• It is convenient and economizes time for the patient.

! On the day of the operation the patient can stay in the single first class ward, where the physician will control his general state of health.

• It is convenient for the patient and provides the additional guarantee for his safety, especially for elderly people.

! The operations are performed in the specialized operating block, furnished with the most innovative equipment for sterility maintenance. During the operation the brigade of highly qualified specialists controls the patient’s state of health.

• This decreases the risk of infection and provides additional safety guarantees.

! Having wide range of intraocular lenses (all premium class IOL (intraocular lenses) available in Ukraine are used in the medical centre AILAS), our centre uses only the best bendable intraocular lenses for the lens exchanges.

• Individual approach to the choice of artificial intraocular lenses considering individual needs of the patient, guarantees high quality of sight.

The price of the operation on the lens exchange includes:

- calculation of the lenses’ parameters;

- physician’s consultation;

- anaesthetist’s consultation

- anaesthetist’s control during the operation;

- sedation;

- medicines, provided after the operation;

- staying in the single first class ward within several hours after the operation;

- medical supervision within three months after the operation