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The Nigerian national blindness and visual impairment survey: Rationale, objectives and detailed methodology [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Despite having the largest population in Africa, Nigeria has no accurate population based data to plan and evaluate eye care services. A national survey was undertaken to estimate the prevalence and determine the major causes of blindness and
Gudlavalleti Murthy VS, Brendan Dineen, Jiya, JY, Hannah Faal, Elhassan, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Elhassan, Mansur Rabiu, Rabiu, Mansur, Abiose Adenike, Rabiu, M, Ozemela, Chinenyem P, Adenike Abiose, Lee, Pak Sang, Lee Pak, Mahdi, Abdull M, Gilbert Clare E, Abiose, Adenike, Abubakar Tafida, Christian C Ezelum, Dineen Brendan, Abiose, A, Gudlavalleti, MVS, Elhassan Elizabeth, Ozemela Chinenyem P, Mahdi Abdull M, Mahdi, AM, Fatima Kyari, Abdull M Mahdi, Ezelum, CC, Lee, PS, Gilbert, CE, Gabriel, E, Clare E Gilbert, Ezelum, Christian C, Pak Sang Lee, Dineen, Brendan, Gabriel, Entekume, Gudlavalleti, Murthy VS, Tafida Abubakar, Murthy VS Gudlavalleti, Faal, H, Kyari, F, Abubakar, T, Elhassan, E, Entekume Gabriel, Ozemela, CP, Gabriel Entekume, Kyari, Fatima, Faal Hannah, Ezelum Christian C, Rabiu Mansur, Faal, Hannah, Gilbert, Clare E, Kyari Fatima, Chinenyem P Ozemela, Abubakar, Tafida, Jiya, Jonathan Y, Jonathan Y Jiya, Dineen, B, Jiya Jonathan Y   +59 more
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Ecological determinants of blindness in Nigeria: the Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey. [PDF]

, 2011
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and causes of visual loss in different ecological zones across Nigeria. METHODS: A population-based survey using multi-stage, stratified, cluster random sampling with probability proportional to size comprising a ...
Abubakar, Tafida, Rabiu, MM, Kyari, Fatima, Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Study Group, Gudlavalleti, Murthy VS, Gilbert, CE, Sivasubramaniam, Selvaraj, Gudlavalleti, Murthy V S, Gilbert, C E, Rabiu, M M   +9 more
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Prevalence of Cerebral Visual Impairment in Children of Health-care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Questionnaire-based, Cross-sectional Survey

Journal of the Scientific Society
Purpose: To estimate the prevalence of cerebral visual impairment (CVI) among children of the health-care workers in our hospital. Methodology: The questionnaire having 25 questions was used to screen all the participants.
K. S. Smitha, Mehak Bhutani, Vatsala Prasad, V. Samvedya, Bhagyajyothi B. Khanagavi, Chethana Warad   +5 more
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Visual functioning and cerebral visual impairment in children with infantile spasms - West syndrome [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo
Cerebral visual impairment (CVI) is the most common cause of visual impairment in children in both developed and developing countries, making it a relevant research topic on the functional status of neuro-risk children in recent decades.
Vučinić Vesna, Martać Valentina, Cerovac Nataša, Stamenković Miroslav   +3 more
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Cerebral visual impairment in children: the importance of classification [PDF]

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2020
This commentary is on the original article by Sakki et al. on pages 303–312 of this issue.
openaire   +3 more sources

Leucine‐rich glioma inactivated 1 (LGI1) is a ganglioside‐binding protein

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neuronal hyperexcitability associated with a decrease/absence of the extracellular protein LGI1 has been suggested to be primarily due to the downregulation of Kv1 channel expression. The molecular mechanisms underlying this decrease have not yet been elucidated.
Kévin Debreux, Christian Lévêque, Fodil Azzaz, Marion Sangiardi, Sarosh R Irani, Michael Seagar, Jacques Fantini, Oussama El Far   +7 more
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Common visual problems in children with disability [PDF]

, 2014
Children with disability are at a substantially higher risk of visual impairment (VI) (10.5% compared with 0.16%) but also of ocular disorders of all types, including refractive errors and strabismus.
Salt, A, Sargent, J
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Estados alterados de la conciencia tras un daño cerebral [PDF]

, 2021
Las personas somos conscientes de nosotras mismas y de nuestro entorno a través de la conciencia. No obstante, los estados alterados de la conciencia son situaciones como el coma u otros estados clínicos en los que personas con un daño cerebral severo no
Federación Española de Daño Cerebral
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Relationship between Sensory Processing Skills and Feeding Behaviors in Children Aged 3–6 Years with Cerebral Palsy with Cerebral Visual Impairment

Children, 2023
The current study aimed to examine the relationship between sensory processing skills and feeding behavior in cerebral palsy (CP) children aged 3–6 years with cerebral visual impairment (CVI).
Mustafa Cemali, Özge Cemali, Ayla Günal, Serkan Pekçetin   +3 more
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From energy provision to protein synthesis: Tunnelling nanotubes as mediators of intercellular metabolic cooperation in cancer

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The cytoskeleton‐mediated transport of mitochondria via tunnelling nanotubes restores respiration, increases ATP production, rescues cells from apoptosis, activates the AKT/mTOR signalling pathway, promotes cell migration and invasiveness, contributes to cancer progression and treatment resistance.
Stanislava Martínková, Jan Trnka
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