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Cross-sectional study of the association between cataract surgery and age-related macular degeneration in the era of phacoemulsification in the national health and nutrition examination survey 2005–2008

BMJ Open, 2020
Objective To determine the association between cataract surgery and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a representative US sample.Design Population-based, cross-sectional study.Setting The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005 ...
Jian Zhang, Wei Wang, Stuart Keel, Mingguang He, Zhuoting Zhu, Huan Liao   +5 more
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Diabetes and Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery: Difficulties, Risks and Potential Complications

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2019
Diabetes mellitus is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide. Diabetic patients are at risk of developing cataract and present for surgery at an earlier age than non-diabetics. The aim of this study was to review the problems associated with
A. Grzybowski, P. Kanclerz, V. Huerva, F. Ascaso, R. Tuuminen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Why do people not attend for treatment for trachomatous trichiasis in Ethiopia? A study of barriers to surgery. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Trachomatous trichiasis (TT) surgery is provided free or subsidised in most trachoma endemic settings. However, only 18-66% of TT patients attend for surgery.
Bedri, Amir, Burton, Matthew J, Emerson, Paul M, Gebre, Teshome, Gilbert, Clare E, Habtamu, Esmael, Rajak, Saul N, Weiss, Helen A, Zerihun, Mulat   +8 more
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One-year outcomes following implantation of second-generation trabecular micro-bypass stents in conjunction with cataract surgery for various types of glaucoma or ocular hypertension: multicenter, multi-surgeon study

Clinical Ophthalmology, 2019
Purpose To assess the utility and safety of implanting two second-generation trabecular micro-bypass stents following cataract surgery in eyes with mild to advanced glaucoma or ocular hypertension (OHT). Patients and methods Retrospective study of iStent®
C. Clement, F. Howes, Alexandros S Ioannidis, Michael Shiu, David Manning   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Association between previous cataract surgery and cognition among middle-aged and older Chinese: the China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS)

BMC Ophthalmology, 2023
Background Cataract is the primary cause of blindness globally, and surgery offers the only method by which to remove cataracts. We aimed to examine whether previous cataract surgery is associated with cognitive function.
Xiaohuan Zhao, Kunchen Wei, Junran Sun, Jieqiong Chen, Yimin Wang, Yuhong Chen, Xinyue Zhu, Xiaodong Sun, Tong Li, Minwen Zhou   +9 more
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Cataract extraction slowed the visual field progression rate in patients with angle-closure glaucoma

Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of progression of Humphrey visual field before and after the cataract surgery in patients with angle-closure glaucoma.
Yu-Chun Cheng, Ming-Hui Sun, Wei-Chi Wu, Wei-Wen Su   +3 more
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Coverage of hospital-based cataract surgery and barriers to the uptake of surgery among cataract blind persons in nigeria: the Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey.

, 2012
PURPOSE: To determine cataract surgical coverage, and barriers to modern cataract surgery in Nigeria. METHODS: Multistage stratified cluster random sampling was used to identify a nationally representative sample of 15,027 persons aged 40+ years.
Abdullahi U. Imam, Clare E. Gilbert, Mohammed M. Abdull, Murthy V. S. Gudlavalleti, null null, Selvaraj Sivasubramaniam, Tafida Abubakar   +6 more
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Growth factor restriction impedes progression of wound healing following cataract surgery: identification of VEGF as a putative therapeutic target [PDF]

, 2016
Secondary visual loss occurs in millions of patients due to a wound-healing response, known as posterior capsule opacification (PCO), following cataract surgery. An intraocular lens (IOL) is implanted into residual lens tissue, known as the capsular bag,
A Parenti, AJ Maloof, B Amoozgar, B Hinz, B Lundqvist, B Thylefors, BP Danysh, C Biagi, D Belotti, D Spalton, D Xu, G Duncan, G Duncan, GC Brown, IM Wormstone, IM Wormstone, IM Wormstone, IM Wormstone, IM Wormstone, J Nagata, JA Eldred, JA Eldred, JF Boyce, JL Davis, JL Kovach, K Hayashi, K Ohta, L Leishman, MA Nanavaty, N Ferrara, NI Chaudhary, NV Palejwala, O Nishi, PJ Sime, R Alon, RJ Kelly, RL Avery, RU de Iongh, S Resnikoff, SC Kavoussi, T Hara, T Hara, TM Rabsilber, W Wu, X Huang   +44 more
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Recent developments in cataract surgery

Annals of Translational Medicine, 2019
Cataract surgery is the most common surgical procedure performed in medicine. In the 2015 over 20 million surgeries were carried out worldwide, of which 3.6 million in the United States of America and 4.2 million in the European Union.
A. Grzybowski
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Age at recognition and age at presentation for surgery for congenital and developmental cataract in Kazakhstan

Annals of Medicine, 2022
Purpose To investigate the age at recognition and presentation for surgery for congenital and developmental cataract at Kazakh Eye Research Institute in Kazakhstan.Methods A retrospective review of children aged 0–18 years, who presented with congenital ...
Aliya Kabylbekova, Serik Meirmanov, Altyn Aringazina, Lukpan Orazbekov, Ardak Auyezova   +4 more
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