Cataracts: Clinical presentations, diagnosis and management

Abstract

Summary Cataracts can be developmental or acquired lesions and cause minimal or significant visual impairment. The ability to identify cataracts and determine the likely effect on the visual potential of the horse is an important part of an equine ocular examination. Cataract surgery is the only treatment for those cataracts that cause significant visual impairment. Understanding appropriate patient selection and potential post operative complications is important so that owners can be appropriately advised of their options.

A problem‐based approach to the ‘red eye’

“…Engorgement of the episcleral vessels is also a common and non-specific ocular sign. However, when this sign is more obvious than the frequently concurrent conjunctival hyperaemia, it is more likely linked to intraocular diseases, for example, cataracts (Townsend 2016) and glaucoma (Ollivier et al 2009;Thomasy and Lassaline 2015).…”