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Current Trends in the Pharmacotherapy of Cataracts
Pharmaceuticals, 2020 Cataracts, one of the leading causes of preventable blindness worldwide, refers to lens degradation that is characterized by clouding, with consequent blurry vision.
Segewkal H. Heruye +7 more
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Current Approach to the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Cataracts
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 Cataracts remain the first or second leading cause of blindness in all world regions. In the diabetic population, cataracts not only have a 3–5 times higher incidence than in the healthy population but also affect people at a younger age.
M. Mrugacz +3 more
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British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020 Cataract is the most common cause of blindness in the world; during infancy and early childhood, it frequently results in visual impairment. Congenital cataracts are phenotypically and genotypically heterogeneous and can occur in isolation or in ...
V. Berry +5 more
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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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Connexin Mutants Compromise the Lens Circulation and Cause Cataracts through Biomineralization
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 Gap junction-mediated intercellular communication facilitates the circulation of ions, small molecules, and metabolites in the avascular eye lens. Mutants of the lens fiber cell gap junction proteins, connexin46 (Cx46) and connexin50 (Cx50), cause ...
V. M. Berthoud +5 more
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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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Autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1 and eye damage
Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2021 Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS type 1) is a disease characterized by a variety of clinical manifestations resulting from the involvement of multiple endocrine and non-endocrine organs in the pathological process.
L. Yu. Khamnueva +3 more
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Advances in pharmacotherapy of cataracts
Annals of Translational Medicine, 2020 Cataracts, the leading cause of vision impairment worldwide, arise from abnormal aggregation of lens proteins. According to the World Health Organization, cataracts cause more than 40% of blindness cases.
Jingjie Xu, Q. Fu, Xiangjun Chen, K. Yao
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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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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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