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Managing and preparing for eye emergencies

Community Eye Health Journal, 2018
Eye emergencies can have devastating consequences. We should do everything in our power to ensure that patients’ sight – and lives – can be saved.
John Buchan, Seema Verma
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Active Trachoma Cases in the Solomon Islands Have Varied Polymicrobial Community Structures but Do Not Associate with Individual Non-Chlamydial Pathogens of the Eye

Frontiers in Medicine, 2018
BackgroundSeveral non-chlamydial microbial pathogens are associated with clinical signs of active trachoma in trachoma-endemic communities with a low prevalence of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) infection.
Robert M. R. Butcher, Oliver Sokana, Kelvin Jack, Eric Kalae, Leslie Sui, Charles Russell, Joanna Houghton, Christine Palmer, Martin J. Holland, Richard T. Le Mesurier, Anthony W. Solomon, David C. W. Mabey, Chrissy h. Roberts   +12 more
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Overcoming Cognitive Bias: A Case of Disseminated Neurocysticercosis in a Muslim Woman With Remote Pork Consumption

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Religious prohibitions against pork do not exclude individuals residing in endemic regions from contracting neurocysticercosis. Obtaining a detailed lifetime exposure history, including prior religious and dietary practices, is essential to overcome cognitive bias and prevent diagnostic delays.
Joseph Y. B. Nnang, Berjo Takoutsing, Astel Dongmo, Jeanne Annick Tsilla, Barah Mvuchiim, Roshina Numfor, Munteh Fang Nkwojei Randall, Elvira Aka, Ignatius Esene   +8 more
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Eye care in South Asia, 1988-2018: developments, achievements and future challenges. [PDF]

, 2017
Despite South Asia’s many challenges, including a rapid increase in non-communicable eye diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy of prematurity, the many and varied successes of the last thirty years are a cause for ...
Murthy, Gudlavalleti Vs, Gudlavalleti VS Murthy   +1 more
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Following up children born preterm

Community Eye Health Journal, 2017
Babies born preterm, particularly those who have been treated for retinopathy of prematurity, are at greater risk of other eye conditions. Examining these children again, at the right time, can save their sight.
P Vijayalakshmi, Clare Gilbert
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Artificial intelligence-supported diabetic retinopathy screening in Tanzania: rationale and design of a randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open
Introduction Globally, diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of blindness. Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to see the largest proportionate increase in the number of people living with diabetes over the next two decades.
Adnan Tufail, Pearse A Keane, Alastair K Denniston, David Macleod, Matthew J Burton, Ana Patricia Marques, Catherine Egan, Covadonga Bascaran, Heiko Philippin, William Makupa, Charles R Cleland, Bernadetha Shilio, Frank A Sandi   +12 more
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Periorbital infections and conjunctivitis due to Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) positive Staphylococcus aureus in children

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Colonisation with Panton-Valentine Leukocidin expressing strains of Staphylococcus aureus (PVL + SA) is characterised by recurrent skin and soft tissue infections.
Pia-Alice Hoppe, Leif G. Hanitsch, Rasmus Leistner, Michaela Niebank, Christoph Bührer, Horst von Bernuth, Renate Krüger   +6 more
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Watershed land cover predicts the abundance of macroplastic and other anthropogenic litter in streams

Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 71, Issue 6, June 2026.
Macroplastic and other types of macroscopic anthropogenic litter (AL; trash, particles > 5 mm) are pervasive across ecosystems, persistent in the environment, increasing in abundance, and can degrade into microplastics (particles < 5 mm). Rivers retain and transform AL prior to export downstream, but improved predictions of AL distribution and movement
Bailey A. Schwenk, Elizabeth M. Kazmierczak, Fritz Petersen, Jacob Haney, Xia Zhu, Shan Zuidema, Emily K. Lever, Richard B. Lammers, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Chelsea M. Rochman, Timothy J. Hoellein   +10 more
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The efficacy of earplugs as a sleep hygiene strategy for reducing delirium in the ICU: A systematic review and meta-analysis

, 2016
Objective: A systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the efficacy of earplugs as an ICU strategy for reducing delirium. Data Sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of controlled trials were searched using the terms "intensive ...
Carnegie, V, Webb, SAR, Litton, E, Elliott, R   +3 more
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Selecting and training candidates to suit their role

Community Eye Health Journal, 2018
Training the eye team can improve individual and community eye health – provided the right people are trained, and in the right way.
Dhivya Ramsamy, Daksha Patel
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