Acta Scientific Ophthalmology (ISSN: 2582-3191)

Editorial Volume 5 Issue 4

Noncompliance with Prescribed Eye Drops is to be Addressed in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery

Ali Nouraeinejad*

Ph.D. in Clinical Ophthalmology, Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

*Corresponding Author:Ali Nouraeinejad, Ph.D. in Clinical Ophthalmology, Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom.

Received: February 14, 2022; Published: March 01, 2022

Cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide [1-6]. Cataract surgery is one of the most common surgeries in the world [2] so that cataract surgery is the commonest single surgical procedure carried out in the developed world [7].

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Citation

Citation: Ali Nouraeinejad. “Noncompliance with Prescribed Eye Drops is to be Addressed in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery".Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 5.4 (2022): 01-02.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Ali Nouraeinejad. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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