The benefit of treating cataract related visual disability
Keywords:
cataract, cataract surgery}, disability, phacoemulsification, rehabilitationAbstract
Resumen
Publication Facts
Reviewer profiles N/A
Author statements
Indexed in
- Editor & editorial board
- profiles
- Academic society
- N/A
To learn about these publication facts, click 
PF is maintained by the Public Knowledge Project
References
Visual Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study; GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators. Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020. Eye 2024; 38: 2156-2172.
Blanchnio K, Dusinska A, Szymonik J, Juzwiszyn J, Bestecka M, Chabowski M. Quality of Life after Cataract Surgery. J Clin Med 2024; 13:1-15.
Assi L, Chamseddine F, Ibrahim P, Sabbagh H, Rosman L, Congdon N et al. A Global Assessment of Eye Health and Quality of Life. A Systematic Review of Systematics Reviews. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2021;139: 526-541.
Jansone-Langina Z, Solomatin A, Solomatins M, Krumina G. Quality of Life assessment for nuclear, cortical, posterior subcapsular patients before and after cataract surgery. J Optom 2024; 17:1-9.
Hecht I, Kanclerz P, Tuuminen R. Secondary outcomes of lens and cataract surgery: More than just best-corrected visual acuity. Prog Retin Eye Res 2023; 95:1-13.
Afflitto GG, Aiello F, Surico PL, Malek DA, Mori T, Swaminathan SS, et al. Cataract and Risk of Fracture: a Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis, Ophthalmology; 2025: S0161-6420(25)00130-7.
Boyd M, Kvishinadze G, Kho A, Wilson G, Wilson N. Cataract Surgery for falls prevention and improving vision: modelling the health gain, health system cost and cost-effectiveness in high-income country. Inj Prev 2020; 26:302-309.
Baig A, Foss A, Sahota, O, Sehat, K, Ash, I. Vision Screening in Older Adults Admitted with a fragility hip fracture: A healthcare quality improvement report. Br Ir Orthopt J. 2023; 19: 96-107.
Al-Namaeh M. Common causes of visual impairment in the elderly. Med Hypothesis Discov Eye Innov Ophthalmol. 2022; 10: 191-200.
Zhang JH, Ramke J, Lee CN, Gordon I, Safi S, Lingham G, et al. A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for cataract: Evidence to Support the Development of the WHO Package of Eye Care Intervention. Vision 2022; 6: 36.
Livingston, Gill, Huntley J et al. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission. Lancet; 2020: 396: 413-446.
Li M, Hamedani AG. Association of Visual Impairment with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia. J Neuroophthalmol. 2025; 45: 131-136.
Lee CS, Gibbons LE, Lee AY, Yanagihara RT, Blazes MS, et al. Association Between Cataract Extraction and Development of Dementia. JAMA Intern Med. 2022; 182:134-141.
Klauke S, Sondocie C, Fine I. The impact of low vision on social function: the potential importance of lost visual social cues. J Optom. 2022; 16: 3-11.
Joo H, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Chen CL, Sun CQ, Smith AK, Boscardin WJ et al. Cognitive Trajectory Before and After Cataract Surgery: A Population-Based Approach. J Am Geriatr Soc 2025; 73:1073-1081.
Chen PW, Liu PPS, Lin SM, Wang JH, Huang HK, Loh CH. Cataract and the increased risk of depression in general population: A 16‐year nationwide population‐based longitudinal study. Sci Rep. 2020. 10: 13421.
Pershing S, Henderson V, Goldstein M, Lu Y, Bundorf MK, Rahman et al. Cataract Surgery Complexity and Surgical Complication Rates among Medicare Beneficiaries with and without Dementia. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021; 221: 27–38.
Anggarini DW, Handayaningrum VN, Hening BB. Association Between Cataract Surgery and Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A systematic review. JARMHS. 2023; 9: 63-67.
Mehta H. Management of Cataract in Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration. J Clin Med. 2021; 10: 2538.
Tang HY, Rosen M, Granstam E. Cataract surgery in neovascular AMD: impact on visual acuity and disease activity. BMC Opthalmol. 2023; 23: 276. Doi:10.1186/s12886-023-03028-7
Hössl L, Vaghefi SA, Riemer T, Kabiri P, Bonaventura T, Rübsam A et al. Insights into cataract surgery outcomes in age-related macular degeneration. Perspectives across severity grades under clinical routine conditions. Ophthalmology Retina 2025; 9:527-536.
Karesvuo P, Elbaz U, Achiron A, Hecht I, Kaarniranta K, Tuuminen R. Effect of cataract surgery on wet age-related macular degeneration activity. Acta Ophthalmol. 2022; 100: e262-e269.
Klein J, Pierscionek BK, Lauritzen J, Derntl K, Grzybowski A, Zlatkova MB. The Effect of Cataract on Early Stage Glaucoma Detection Using Spatial and Temporal Contrast Sensitivity Tests. PLoS One. 2015; 10: e0128681.
Turalba A, Payal AR, Gonzalez-Gonzalez LA, Cakiner-Egilmez T, Chomsky AS, Vollman DE, et al. Cataract Surgery Outcomes in Glaucomatous Eyes: Results From the Veterans Affairs Ophthalmic Surgery Outcomes Data Project. Am J Ophthalmol. 2015; 160: 693-701.
Skalicky SE, Martin KR, Fenwick E, Crowston JG, Goldberg I, McCluskey P. Cataract and quality of life in patients with glaucoma. Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2015; 43: 335-341.
Xu X, Sun Q, Ma YY, Zou HD. Vision-related Quality of Life Outcomes of Cataract Surgery in Advanced Glaucoma Patients. J Glaucoma. 2016; 25: e5-11.
Rao HL, Jonnadula GB, Addepalli UK, Senthil S, Garudadri CS. Effect of cataract extraction on Visual Field Index in glaucoma. J Glaucoma. 2013; 22: 164-168.
Chung HJ, Choi JH, Lee YC, Kim SY. Effect of Cataract Opacity Type and Glaucoma Severity on Visual Field Index. Optom Vis Sci. 2016; 93: 575-578.
Ivanescu A, Popescu S, Gaita L, Albai O, Braha A, Timar R. Risk factors for cataracts In patients with diabetes mellitus. J Clin Med 2024; 13: 7005.
Das T, Behera UC, Bhattacharjee H, Gilbert C, Murthy GVS et al. Spectrum of eye disorders in diabetes (SPEED) in India: Eye care facility based study. Report # 1. Eye disorders in people with type 21 diabetes mellitus. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020; 68: S16-20.
Wen L, Wang Y, Lin Z, Wang FH, Ding XX, Li D et al. The prevalence and causes of visual impairment in type 2 diabetes mellitus in Northeast China. J Ophthalmol 2020; 5969816.
Pérez-Peralta L, Rivera-De la Parra D, Graue-Hernández E, Hernández-Jiménez S, Almeda-Valdés P, Velázquez-Jurado H et al. Visual impairment associated with diabetic retinopathy and macular edema: a hospital-based study. Gac Med Mex 2023; 159: 203-209.
López-Star EM, Allison-Eckert K, Limburg H, Brea-Rodríguez I, Lansingh VC. Evaluación rápida de la ceguera evitable, incluida la retinopatía diabética, en Querétaro, México. Rev Mex Oftalmol 2018; 92: 84-93.
Madueña-Angulo SE, Beltran-Ontiveros SA, Leal-Leon E, Contreras-Gutierrez JA, Lizárraga-Verdugo E, Gutiérrez-Arzapalo PY et al. National sex- and age-specific burden of blindness and vision impairment by cause in Mexico in 2019: a secondary analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Reg Health Am 2023; 24: 100552.
Mönestam EI. Long-term results of cataract surgery in type 2 diabetics, a 20 year prospective longitudinal study. Acta Ophthalmol 2024; 102: 58-67.
Han MM, Song W, Conti T, Conti FF, Greenlee T, Hom G et al. Visual acuity outcomes after cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation in eyes with diabetic retinopathy. Ophthalmol Retina. 2020; 4: 351-360.
Lee D, Agron E, Keenan T, Lovato J, Ambrosius W, Chew et al. Visual acuity outcomes after cataract surgery in type 2 diabetes: the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) Study. Br J Ophthalmol 2022; 105: 1496-502
Liu L, Herrinton LJ, Alexeef S, Karter AJ, Amsden LB, Carolan J et al. Visual outcomes after cataract surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes. J Cataract Refract Surg 2019; 45: 404-413.
.
Silva LM, Muccioli C, Oliveira FD, Arantes TE, Gonzaga L R, Nakanami CR. Visual impairment from uveitis in a reference hospital of Southeast Brazil: a retrospective review over a twenty years period. Arq Bras Oftalmol. 2013; 76: 366–369.
Levin MH, Pistilli M, Daniel E, Gangaputra SS, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT, et al. Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases Cohort Study. Incidence of visual improvement in uveitis cases with visual impairment caused by macular edema. Ophthalmology. 2014; 121: 588-595.
Rohl A, Patnaik JL, Lynch AM, Palestine AG. Timing of Quiescence and uveitis recurrences after cataract surgery in patients with a history of uveitis. Ophthalmol Ther 2021; 10: 619-628.
Shekhar M, Chaudhary S, Pai A, Rajesh V, Balakrishnan L, Nagu K et al. Visual outcomes and risk factors of uveitis cataract eyes after phacoemulsification and manual small-incision cataract surgery. J Cataract Refract Surg 2024; 50: 257-263.
Pålson S, Pivodic A, Grönlund M, Lunström M, Viberg A, Behndig A et al. Cataract surgery in patients with uveitis: Data from the Swedish National Cataract Register. Acta Ophthalmologica 2023; 101: 376-383.
Jeviknar K, Počkar S, Umek L, Rothova A, Valentincic NV. Prognostic factors of cataract surgery in patients with uveitis. Int Ophthalmol 2023; 43: 4605-4612.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
© Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license which allows to reproduce and modify the content if appropiate recognition to the original source is given.
