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The uncorrected refractive error challenge

open access: yesCommunity Eye Health Journal, 2016
Refractive error affects people of all ages, socio-economic status and ethnic groups. The most recent statistics estimate that, worldwide, 32.4 million people are blind and 191 million people have vision impairment.
Kovin Naidoo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk factors for refractive error after cataract surgery : analysis of 282 811 cataract extractions reported to the European Registry of Quality Outcomes for cataract and refractive surgery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose: To analyze risk factors for refractive error after cataract surgery and provide a benchmark for refractive outcomes after standard cataract surgery. setting: One hundred cataract surgery clinics from 12 European countries.
Manning, Sonia   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

Rare variant analyses across multiethnic cohorts identify novel genes for refractive error [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Refractive error, measured here as mean spherical equivalent (SER), is a complex eye condition caused by both genetic and environmental factors. Individuals with strong positive or negative values of SER require spectacles or other approaches for vision ...
Lewis, Deyana D.   +280 more
core   +9 more sources

Prevalence of refractive errors among the school-going children in East Sikkim

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021
Purpose: Vision plays an important role in child's development for learning and communication. Uncorrected refractive error (URE) has become a major challenge to health care policy makers especially in school going children.
Karma Loday Bhutia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of Refractive Status of 5-15 Years Old Children Attending Government Schools of Rural Agra [PDF]

open access: yesHealthline, 2022
Introduction: In children uncorrected refractive errors have a profound effect on educational and psychosocial development hence it is necessary to estimate the prevalence both at the community and at the school level to aid planning and implementation ...
Himanshu Kumar Yadav   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

ADVANCED KERATOCONUS WITH LOW REFRACTIVE ERROR [PDF]

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology, 2018
In this report we are presenting a 28-year-old female with right keratoconus grade3 and leftkeratoconus grade 2 with low degree refraction (spherical equivalent in right eye = -2.25 and+0.75D in left eye).
Mostafa, E., Mounir, A.
doaj   +1 more source

Stereoacuity after photorefractive keratectomy in myopia

open access: yesJournal of Current Ophthalmology, 2016
Purpose: Stereopsis, as a part of visual function, is the ability of differentiating between the two eyes' views (binocular disparity), due to the eyes' different positions.
Siamak Zarei-Ghanavati   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visual acuity measures do not reliably detect childhood refractive error--an epidemiological study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
PURPOSE: To investigate the utility of uncorrected visual acuity measures in screening for refractive error in white school children aged 6-7-years and 12-13-years.
Nicola S Logan   +19 more
core   +2 more sources

Application of big-data for epidemiological studies of refractive error.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
PurposeTo examine whether data sourced from electronic medical records (EMR) and a large industrial spectacle lens manufacturing database can estimate refractive error distribution within large populations as an alternative to typical population surveys ...
Michael Moore   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accuracy of Intraocular Lens Power Estimation in Eyes Having Phacovitrectomy for Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy of intraocular lens power estimation in eyes having phacovitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Methods: Retrospective case review of 100 consecutive eyes that underwent phacovitrectomy for rhegmatogenous ...
Stephenson, John   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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