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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2015 Cataract is the leading cause of reversible blindness and visual impairment globally. Blindness from cataract is more common in populations with low socioeconomic status and in developing countries than in developed countries. The only treatment for cataract is surgery.
Dennis Shun-Chiu Lam +2 more
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Cataract and surgery for cataract [PDF]
BMJ, 2006 Cataract surgery is the commonest single surgical procedure carried out in the developed world. In the developing world, cataract remains the commonest cause of blindness. In 1990 an estimated 37 million people were blind worldwide—40% of them because of cataract.1 Every year, an extra 1-2 million people go blind.
David L. Allen, Abhay Vasavada
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BMC Ophthalmology, 2023 Background Autophagy is an important process that maintains the quality of intracellular proteins and organelles. There is extensive evidence that autophagy has an important role in the lens.
Jiasheng Liu +7 more
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Effects of Corneal Stromal Lens Collagen Cross-Linking Regraft on Corneal Biomechanics
Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 Background. Corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) therapy, a method that uses a combination of riboflavin and ultraviolet-A light (UVA), can promote the formation of covalent cross-linking of amino acid residues of corneal collagen and enhance the ...
Rong Shi +4 more
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Comparison of pseudophakic retinal straylight in spherical/aspherical and hydrophobic/hydrophilic intraocular lens [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2015 AIM: To study the potential reasons of increased straylight in pseudophakic eyes. METHODS: Cross-sectional study. Seventy patients diagnosed as bilateral age-related cataract and implanted with Tecnis ZA9003, Sensar AR40e, SA60AT, XLSTABI ZO or Akeros
Yong Tang, Hui Song, Jing Chen, Xin Tang
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Multifocal intraocular lens exchange to monofocal for the management of neuroadaptation failure
Eye and Vision, 2022 Background The aim of this study was to evaluate visual, refractive, quality of vision, visual function and satisfaction of multifocal intraocular lens (MF-IOL) exchange with a monofocal IOL (MNF-IOL) in dissatisfied patients following MF-IOL ...
Olena Al-Shymali +5 more
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Cell Communication and Signaling, 2023 Background Arginase-1 (ARG1) promotes collagen synthesis and cell proliferation. ARG1 is highly expressed in various tumour cells. The mechanisms of ARG1 in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-associated cataracts were studied herein.
Qingyu Li +8 more
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BMC Ophthalmology, 2022 Purpose To compare morphological changes in the anterior capsule of two intraocular lenses (IOLs) with different anterior edge designs 6 months after femtosecond laser-assisted capsulotomy surgery (FLACs).
Qian Liu +5 more
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Hydrophobic versus hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lens on posterior capsule opacification: a Meta-analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 AIM: To conduct a Meta-analysis pooling randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to compare hydrophobic with hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lenses in terms of posterior capsule opacification (PCO) development.
Qiong Wu, Yan Li, Lian Wu, Cong-Yi Wang
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Comparison of two different methods of preoperative marking for toric intraocular lens implantation: bubble marker versus pendulum marker [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2016 AIM: To compare the accuracy of two different methods of preoperative marking for toric intraocular lens (IOL) implantation, bubble marker versus pendulum marker, as a means of establishing the reference point for the final alignment of the toric IOL to ...
Javed Hussain Farooqui +3 more
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