• Opacification of lens
• Painless
• Risk factors
  • Older age
  • Diabetes
    • Through the accumulation of sorbitol in the lens by aldose reductase acting on increased galactose
  • Smoking
  • Alcohol
  • Excessive sunlight (UVB light)
  • Corticosteroids (consider in Rheumatoid arthritis)
  • Trauma, infection
• 🍒What are some textbook clinical features of cataracts?
• Nuclear cataracts can improve Myopia temporarily (second sight)
• 🍒What is the management for cataracts
• Congenital cataracts
  • Classic Galactosemia
  • Galactokinase deficiency
  • TORCH Infections as part of the congenital rubella syndrome