Sir, Cataract presenting as manifest refractive astigmatism: case study Refractive errors have been well described in association with cataract, most commonly in the form of myopic progression with nuclear sclerosis. 1 We present the following cases of patients with cataracts presenting as manifest refractive astigmatism secondary to lenticular astigmatism, in turn due to posterior subcapsular and nuclear sclerotic cataracts.
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