Fuchs' cataract

Cataract is a disease that is accompanied by clouding of the lens of the eye. Cataracts can be of various types and forms, including age-related, traumatic, congenital, complicated cataracts and much more. Among all these types of diseases, Flux cataract has a unique character and is of particular interest to medical professionals.

Heterochromic cataract is another name for Floise cataract, although it is rarely used these days. The uniqueness of the disease lies in the fact that it combines the symptoms of several types of cataracts, such as concave, convex, displaced edges and others. One of the main signs of Fuchs cataract is heterochromic opacification of the lens: i.e. a change in its color when looking at a bright light from one of the lateral fields of vision, but vision is not impaired. At the same time, cataracts of other types have homochromic or monochrome-heterochromic changes in the lenses. In general, lens opacities due to Fuchs cataracts usually affect only 60-70% of the total number of visible light rays in the lens. While corneal opacities (t.