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Quality of care provided to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Tshwane, South Africa [PDF]
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineBackground: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is a public health challenge, affecting 90% of all patients with diabetes, globally. Compliance to treatment guidelines among healthcare professionals (HCPs) is low, thus resulting in inadequate quality of ...
Ntlogeleng M. Mogale +3 more
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Tools and methods for cataract recognition in low-resource settings: A narrative review. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public HealthCataracts are a leading cause of global blindness, with many low-resource populations having poor access to eye care. While much is known regarding surgical access and outcomes, less is understood about the initial detection of operable cataracts in low ...
Paulina N Truong +4 more
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Smartphone ophthalmoscope as a tool in teaching direct ophthalmoscopy: a crossover randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Medical Education Online, 2023 Mingzhi Zhang, Haoyu Chen, Hongxi Wang
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The effectiveness of smartphone ophthalmoscope compared to direct ophthalmoscope as a teaching tool
The Asia Pacific Scholar, 2022 Introduction: The direct ophthalmoscope is a standard tool for fundus examination but is underutilised in practice due to technical difficulties. Although the smartphone ophthalmoscope has been demonstrated to improve fundus abnormality detection, there ...
Amelah Abdul Qader +2 more
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Application of Adaptive Optics in Ophthalmology
Photonics, 2022 The eye, the photoreceptive organ used to perceive the external environment, is of great importance to humans. It has been proven that some diseases in humans are accompanied by fundus changes; therefore, the health status of people may be interpreted ...
Lixin Liu +6 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1898 In this instrument the first noticeable feature is the construction and placing of the mirror; this not only tilts but also revolves about its own axis. The second feature is that the body of the instrument is so constructed that it can be revolved around its own axis carrying the mirror with it.
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Relationship between diabetes mellitus and cataract in Hungary [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020 AIM: To examine the coexistence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and cataract in Hungary. The effects of DM on the cataract surgical results were also in the focus of analysis.
Anita Pék +7 more
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Fundus Autofluorescence and Clinical Applications
Journal of Ophthalmic & Vision Research, 2021 Fundus autofluorescence (FAF) has allowed in vivo mapping of retinal metabolic derangements and structural changes not possible with conventional color imaging.
Cameron Pole, Hossein Ameri
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 Based on our previously developed mono-color video-ophthalmoscope a multi-color video-ophthalmoscope was developed. Using narrow band transmission filters, this instrument allows to measure the pulsatile cardiac cycle induced blood volume changes in the ...
Ralf-Peter Tornow +2 more
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Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2023 Introduction: Diabetic retinopathy is a specific microvascular ocular complication associated with diabetes. However, retinopathy has also been reported in people with prediabetes. The study aimed to find out the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy among
Arjun Shrestha +5 more
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