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Medicinal Plants and Natural Products Used in Cataract Management
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2019 Cataract is the leading reason of blindness worldwide and is defined by the presence of any lens opacities or loss of transparency. The most common symptoms of cataract are impaired vision, decreased contrast sensitivity, color disturbance, and glare ...
Devesh Tewari +2 more
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Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2017 Pediatric cataract is a leading cause of childhood blindness. Untreated cataracts in children lead to tremendous social, economical, and emotional burden to the child, family, and society. Blindness related to pediatric cataract can be treated with early
S. Khokhar +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background To evaluate the global burden of cataracts by year, age, region, gender, and socioeconomic status using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and prevalence from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2019.
R. Fang +6 more
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Association Between Cataract Extraction and Development of Dementia
JAMA Internal Medicine, 2021 Key Points Question Is cataract extraction associated with reduced risk of developing dementia? Findings In this cohort study assessing 3038 adults 65 years of age or older with cataract enrolled in the Adult Changes in Thought study, participants who ...
Cecilia S. Lee +10 more
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CataractNet: An Automated Cataract Detection System Using Deep Learning for Fundus Images
IEEE Access, 2021 Cataract is one of the most common eye disorders that causes vision distortion. Accurate and timely detection of cataracts is the best way to control the risk and avoid blindness.
Masum Shah Junayed +3 more
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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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A large multiethnic GWAS meta-analysis of cataract identifies new risk loci and sex-specific effects
Nature Communications, 2021 Cataract is the leading cause of blindness among the elderly worldwide and cataract surgery is one of the most common operations performed in the United States.
H. Choquet +10 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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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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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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