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• An estimated 20.5 million Americans aged 40 y (17.2% of that population) have cataract, 6.1 million (5.1%) have pseudophakia or aphakia, and it is predicted that those...
• Cataract removal procedure involves the removal of the crystalline lens which creates a condition called aphakia.
• Since the 1970s, contact lenses have been the standard way of treating aphakia (surgical lens removal to treat cataract), they said.
• These factors among others probably contribute to the poor visual outcome of many children with unilateral aphakia, "wrote the authors.