Same-day cataract surgery on both eyes called safe, effective - UPI.com

Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Same-day cataract surgery on both eyes can be safe, effective and practical, according to a pair of new studies.

Cataract surgery typically is performed on one eye and then the other, with procedures scheduled weeks or months apart.

But getting surgery done on both eyes at once works just as well, and doesn't appear to interfere with patients' ability to manage on their own at home afterward, researchers are to report this weekend at a meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons in Copenhagen.

"For patients, these findings are encouraging," researcher Dr. Gabriele Gallo Afflitto, an ophthalmologist with Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K., said in a news release.

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