After the strike in the eye of the star burns

We got hit in the eye cataract men formed in the shape of a star. Doctors say that nature has created the perfect beauty of the clouding of the lens.

55-year-old resident of Austria to a certain household fight received a punch in the eye, but the doctors did not apply. When the bruise came down, a man and completely forgotten about the incident. But six months later he started having problems with his vision - surrounding objects lost their former sharpness. Just then the man decided to consult an ophthalmologist, as reported in the journal New England Journal of Medicine.

Its experts visited the Medical University of Innsbruck. They diagnosed him cataracts   - Clouding of the lens, causing visual disturbances with characteristic vagueness. Most often the disease develops in old age (cataract has a one in three over 65), but it can also be the cause of the injury and the eye.

In fact, Cataract   often develop after an eye injury. As ophthalmologists say, in this case, "nature can create something truly beautiful." It happened at the Austrian men. In his eyes clouding formed in the shape of a star almost perfectly correct. Austrians rescued from the disorder of applying a technique called phacoemulsification - microsurgical technique cataract surgery In which to destroy the nucleus of the lens on the principle of "pneumatic hammer", a special needle.

"Whenever the eye is applied to trauma, such as stroke, his energy causes shock waves that pass through the eye - says ophthalmologist from New York Dr. Mark Fromer. - It can damage the lens of the eye, which will cause its turbidity, which is called a cataract . The main symptoms of cataract: problems with vision in bright light, color change, the emergence of yellow hues, blurring of vision. " (READ MORE)

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