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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.
Lam, Dennis +9 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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Methods and findings on an ophthalmic mission trip to colombia
The Pan-American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020 Background: Medical ministry international (MMI) is a Canadian charitable organization that coordinates healthcare missions to underserved people in developing countries. Objective: We report on the baseline clinical findings of a mission trip to Ciénaga
Ethan Waisberg, John Harvey
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Study of congenital Morgagnian cataracts in Holstein calves [PDF]
, 2019 Cataracts are focal to diffuse opacities of the eye lens causing impaired vision or complete blindness. For bilateral congenital cataracts in Red Holsteins a perfectly cosegregating mutation within the CPAMD8 gene (CPAMD8:g.5995966C>T) has been reported.
Beineke, Andreas +9 more
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Clinical Profile of Pediatric Cataracts in a Tertiary Eye Care Center in Mongolia
Central Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics of pediatric cataracts in children undergoing surgery in our tertiary care center in Mongolia. Methods: Patients aged ≤ 18 years who underwent pediatric cataract surgery over a three-year period at our ...
Shamsiya Murat +4 more
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Further genetic heterogeneity for autosomal dominant human sutural cataracts [PDF]
, 2003 A unique sutural cataract was observed in a 4-generation German family to be transmitted as an isolated autosomal, dominant trait. Since mutations in the gamma-crystallin encoding CRYG genes have previously been demonstrated to be the most frequent ...
Billingsley, G. +6 more
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Seeing invisible light: 2-photon microperimetry to measure visual function
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2022 Purpose: The accuracy of conventional visual function tests, which emit visible light, decreases in patients with corneal scars, cataracts, and vitreous hemorrhages.
Urmi Mehta +3 more
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Double-pass technique and compensation-comparison method in eyes with cataract [PDF]
, 2016 PURPOSE To clinically assess the objective scatter index (OSI) obtained from double-pass images and the log(s) parameter measured with the direct compensation-comparison psychophysical technique in eyes with cataract.
Almudí Cortés, Lorena +7 more
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An epidemiological assessment of lens opacifications that impaired vision in patients injected with radium-224 [PDF]
, 1988 The incidence of lens opacifications that impaired vision (cataract) was analyzed among 831 patients who were injected with known dosages of 224Ra in Germany shortly after World War II.
Chmelevsky, D. +4 more
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Histidine nutrition and genotype affect cataract development in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L. [PDF]
, 2005 The aim of this study was to investigate effects of dietary levels of histidine (His) and iron (Fe) on cataract development in two strains of Atlantic salmon monitored through parr-smolt transformation.
Bjerkas, E +5 more
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