Presbyopic spectacle coverage, willingness to pay for near correction, and the impact of correcting uncorrected presbyopia in adults in Zanzibar, East Africa. [PDF]
, 2010 PURPOSE: To assess presbyopic spectacle coverage, willingness to pay, and the impact of correcting uncorrected presbyopia in individuals 40 years of age and older in Zanzibar and whether assessment of presbyopia can be incorporated into Rapid Assessment ...
Gilbert, Clare +4 more
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Clinical Optometry, 2023 Amsalu Belete Yalew,1,* Haile Woretaw Alemu,2,* Abiy Maru Alemayehu2,* 1Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia; 2Department of Optometry ...
Yalew AB, Alemu HW, Alemayehu AM
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Presbyopia surgery in phakic patients [PDF]
, 2004 Presbyopia is characterized as a progressive age-related loss of accommodative amplitude. In recent years, attempts have been made to surgically reverse presbyopia.
Allemann, Norma, Ferraz, Caroline Amaral
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Population need for primary eye care in Rwanda: A national survey. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: Universal access to Primary Eye Care (PEC) is a key global initiative to reduce and prevent avoidable causes of visual impairment (VI). PEC can address minor eye conditions, simple forms of uncorrected refractive error (URE) and create a ...
Bright, Tess +5 more
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Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Global and regional prevalence estimates for blindness and vision impairment are important for the development of public health policies. We aimed to provide global estimates, trends, and projections of global blindness and vision impairment.
Aditi Das +114 more
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Functional Visual Acuity of Early Presbyopia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 PURPOSE:To evaluate visual function in patients with early presbyopia using the functional visual acuity (FVA) test. METHODS:This study included 27 eyes of 27 healthy older volunteers (mean age, 44.1 ± 2.6 years) and 14 eyes of 14 healthy young ...
Yusaku Katada +7 more
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Epithelial ingrowth following laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK): prevalence, risk factors, management and visual outcomes [PDF]
, 2018 The number of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) procedures is continuing to rise. Since its first application for correcting simple refractive errors over 25 years ago, the role of LASIK has extended to treat other conditions, including ...
Danjoux, Jean-Pierre +2 more
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Pharmacological treatment of presbyopia: A systematic review
European Journal of Translational Myology, 2022 The aim of this study was to identify the efficacy of drug agents for pharmacological Treatment of Presbyopia. Published research papers were reviewed using the relevant terms in PubMed, Science direct, Google scholar, Medline, Google patent, Ovid ...
Negin Haghpanah, Raid Alany
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BMC Ophthalmology, 2022 Plain English summary The term presbyopia describes the difficulty to focus the eyes on things nearby, due to stiffening of the eye lens. The condition often considered something which worsens with increasing age.
Mile Brujic +6 more
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Temporal multiplexing with adaptive optics for simultaneous vision. [PDF]
, 2016 We present and test a methodology for generating simultaneous vision with a deformable mirror that changed shape at 50 Hz between two vergences: 0 D (far vision) and -2.5 D (near vision).
Alió +37 more
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