Why Do I Have Cloudy Vision Months After Cataract Surgery?
In this video, Dr. Keith Skolnick of Fort Lauderdale Eye Institute explains a common cause of cloudy or blurry vision that can occur months or even years after cataract surgery. Although cataracts do not return once the natural lens is removed and replaced with a lens implant, some patients develop clouding of the thin membrane behind the implant, known as posterior capsular opacification. Dr. Skolnick discusses how this condition can be quickly treated with a simple in-office YAG laser procedure that restores clear vision. The treatment takes only seconds, requires no recovery time, and helps patients regain the sharp vision they experienced after cataract surgery.
Hi, I’m Dr. Keith Skolnick. I specialize in cataract surgery at the Fort Lauderdale Eye Institute.
A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye. With cataract surgery, we remove the lens of the eye, and we leave the outer portion called the capsular bag. That’s what holds the new lens in place. Sometimes, months to years after surgery, you can experience blurred vision or glare around lights, which can be caused by opacification or clouding of that bag. The actual cataract does not come back.
If that occurs, there’s a simple in-office procedure called a YAG laser, which is done to open up a new opening in that capsular bag. That restores your vision back to how it was after the cataract surgery. That procedure takes about 30 seconds. There are no restrictions after that procedure. You don’t even need to use drops.
Approximately a third to a fourth of patients after cataract surgery will need this procedure done for opacification or clouding of the capsular bag, which now contains the lens implant.
Thank you.
