Cataract surgery in the dog is a highly successful procedure that many owners have chosen for their four-legged friends to regain or improve vision. Cataracts in general and a brief discussion of the preoperative workup and surgery is presented in a prior post that you can peruse if interested titled Cataracts in the Dog. (You can find this older post if you scroll to the bottom of this page and click on Older Entries.) Removal of an opaque, cataractous lens is an elective procedure that is chosen if we feel we can improve our dog’s quality of life by returning
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Welcome back from the holidays! Hope everyone had a wonderful season full of family joy and giving. Our family here at the Animal Eye Clinic had no complaints as apparently all were on the “nice” list and the New Year rang in sweetly. And now that we have weathered the latest series of storms, I guess it means back to work for all full time!
We had last started a discussion about lid disease. We see lots of patients here with a variety of lid maladies that affect its position, function and appearance. Some are genetic in origin, many are acquired
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The eyelid is involved in many diseases that we see and treat on a regular basis. Its function to protect the eye is an important one, whether it be to act as a barrier to prevent direct trauma, to limit bright light irritation or to distribute the tear over the corneal surface. Some species have an extra lid where others have no lids at all! I’ll take a couple of posts to address the lids and we will concentrate on congenital issues here. So take off your lid and stay awhile as we talk about the eyelid and some of
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