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Cataract Coach
July 23, 2026
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This 94-year-old patient presents with cataracts and pseudoexfoliation syndrome, with the right eye having more stability and the left having less, as seen in Figure 1.Given that the patient is a nonagenarian, the ocular structural tissues are already fragile. When you combine that with the progressive zonular weakness of pseudoexfoliation, the risk for intraoperative capsular bag loss,
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July 23, 2026
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Cataract surgeons need to be aware of pseudoexfoliation syndrome, a systemic basement membrane disorder that compromises the…

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