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Cataract: Advances in surgery and whether surgery remains the only treatment in future
Advances in Ophthalmology Practice and Research, 2021 Background: Cataract is the world's leading eye disease that causes blindness. The prevalence of cataract aged 40 years and older is approximately 11.8%–18.8%. Currently, surgery is the only way to treat cataracts.
Xinyi Chen +3 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, Allen, Abhay, Vasavada
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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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American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2023 Purpose: To report our initial experience in patients with primary pterygium surgery who had a transparent intrastromal corneal lenticule as a free graft obtained during small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) surgery.
Said Nafiz Mutlu +3 more
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Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 A deleterious variant of FCHSD1 results in mTOR pathway overactivation and may cause porto‐sinusoidal vascular disorder (PSVD). The pedigree of the family demonstrated an autosomal dominant disease with variable expressivity. Whole‐genome sequencing and Sanger sequencing both validated the existence of the FCHSD1 variant and the heterozygosity of c ...
Jingxuan Shan +19 more
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iStent inject® and cataract surgery for mild-to-moderate primary open angle glaucoma in Japan: a cost-utility analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 AIM: To evaluate the cost-utility of iStent inject® with cataract surgery vs cataract surgery alone in patients with mild-to-moderate primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in the Japanese setting from a public payer's perspective.
Ataru Igarashi +7 more
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Alport Syndrome and Femtosecond Laser-assisted Cataract Surgery
Journal of Ophthalmic & Vision Research, 2020 We report the surgical management of a patient with bilateral anterior lenticonus due to Alport syndrome using femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) and the Optiwave Refractive Analysis (ORA) system.
Paz Orts-Vila +3 more
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Preoperative visual acuity among cataract surgery patients and countries' state of development: a global study. [PDF]
, 2011 OBJECTIVE: To describe the preoperative surgical case mix among patients undergoing cataract extraction and explore associations between case mix, country level of development (as measured by the Human Development Index, HDI) and cataract surgery rates ...
Razavi, H +20 more
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Is there overutilisation of cataract surgery in England? [PDF]
, 2009 <b>Objectives:</b> Following a 3.7-fold increase in the rate of cataract surgery in the UK between 1989 and 2004, concern has been raised as to whether this has been accompanied by an excessive decline in the threshold such that some ...
Jamison, L. +11 more
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BMJ, 2007 Reorganisation of in-house services is an efficient way to improve quality and increase ...
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