The groundwork of all Happiness is health

Lens, a key component of vision, rarely dislocates but when it does, vision gets badly messed up. Dislocated lens has to be removed by equally rare microsurgery and supplanted with artificial one.

An eyelid droop that causes the eye to look small is called ‘ptosis’. This condition may occur by birth (congenital), after an injury to the eye, or with old age when the muscle that opened the eyelid becomes weak.

A 24 year old male African patient came to us with complaints of blurred vision, inability to open his eyes in bright light and irritation in both his eyes since childhood. On inquiring further, he reports 

A 75 year old lady came with complaint of decrease in vision in the right eye since the last three months, more so since the last 2 weeks. Since the last 2 days, she could only make out light...