Los Angeles Cataract Surgery

Cataract Surgery in Extreme Nearsightedness (Myopia) in Los Angeles

One of my specialties is cataract surgery in challenging situations and patients from across the US are often referred to our practice for this reason. One of the most challenging is performing cataract surgery in people who have an extreme degree of myopia (nearsightedness). Without glasses, these patients can only see inches in front of their face (often less than 1 inch!) and when they develop a cataract their vision declines further. But their cataract surgery is far from routine — it must be done with special techniques in order to avoid severe problems which could lead to loss of vision.

Mike is a 50 year old computer programmer from Ohio who was born prematurely with retina problems which caused him to completely lose vision in one eye as a baby. He has lived with just one eye for his whole life, and that eye is severely myopic (extreme myopia). He developed a cataract over the past few years and his vision declined further — even his thick coke-bottle glasses could not improve the vision enough and he began to have difficulty with his computer work. Mike really did his research (much more than simply a google search on the internet) and he decided that for cataract surgery on his only eye he was going to fly to Los Angeles to the Maloney Vision Institute.

This is one of the articles that led Mike to Uday Devgan MD, Cataract Surgeon in Los Angeles:

The article was published in the journal Ophthalmology Management, which teaches other eye surgeons how to manage difficult surgeries. You can read the full article here:

http://www.ophmanagement.com/article.aspx?article=100823

While the article is full of technical medical terms, I think that you’ll understand a great deal of it.

Mike did great — the cataract was safely removed and he recovered sharp vision without glasses. He’s now able to see his computer screen clearly and without glasses, for the first time in his life. For the important things in life, like Cataract Surgery, making an extra effort to fly to Los Angeles is worth it. Just ask Mike.

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