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Mrs C had a cataract in her right eye. She was booked into hospital for
removal of her intraocular lens and implant (replacement) with a new
(artificial) lens. It was the Claimant’s case that during this surgery an
introcular lens of the wrong power was implanted. This left her with a very
myopic (short sighted) eye and a huge difference between the relative
strength of each eye (called “anisometropia”). This difference was more than
3 dioptres and meant that when Mrs C tried to see with both eyes together her
brain was unable to fuse the images from each eye into one clear image.
She was therefore left with blurred vision and double vision when she used
both eyes and this, in turn, caused headaches. She needed further surgery and
although this helped it did not completely prevent the problem. Consequently
she had to wear glasses with a frosted right lens to prevent her looking
through that eye.
Damages of £17,500 were agreed after issue of proceedings and reflected Mrs
C’s age.
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Tracy Norris-Evans
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01865 268632
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Richard Coleman |
01865 268631 |
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Judith Leach |
01865 268609 |
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