LOCS III grading was shown to be highly reproducible for nuclear cataract. [ 29 ] Another slit-lamp-based cataract-grading system is the Oxford Clinical Cataract Classification and Grading System ...

In addition, the different methods of definition of cataract (LOCS III, LOCS II, and Wisconsin Cataract Grading System) ... LOCS III ≥ 4 NS ≥ 2 for CC ≥ 2 for PSC: 40–81 M&F: AC: NR: 27 ...

LOCS III grading of right cortical cataract by age group. Speedwell Eye Study (1997–1999). Full size image. Visual acuity by cataract type is presented in Table 3 for the right eye.

Cataract research encompasses studies using animals with induced cataracts and human lenses removed from patients. ... The Lens Opacities Classification Scheme (LOCS III), ...

Scheimpflug imaging generated lens backscatter metrics that proved useful in grading cataract and predicting visual outcomes, according to a study. “Overall, metrics of nuclear scatter were ...

Femtosecond laser lens fragmentation with a smaller lens-softening grid significantly reduced ultrasound energy and phacoemulsification time, according to a study.

A Texas school district that has suspended a student for nearly two weeks over his loc hairstyle has asked a court to clarify if the district’s dress code violates the CROWN Act, a state law ...

Icon Bioscience Inc. has kept development of its pipeline of drugs targeting ophthalmic indications largely under wraps. That posture may change as lead candidate IBI-10090, designed to treat ...

A Texas high school did not violate the state’s new law banning race-based hair discrimination when administrators punished a Black student who refused to cut his locs, a judge ruled Thursday.

In most mice, for example, cataract severity as measured using the LOCS III system, which grades lens opacity on a scale of one to five, was reduced by at least one grade when they were given the ...

Key metrics supporting the finding include: a 99 percent complete capsulotomy rate; elimination of ultrasound phacoemulsification in 40 percent of his first 850 Catalys cases (with average LOCS III ...