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The care of low-vision patients is termed vision rehabilitation, and optometrists\ud have an essential role to play in the provision of vision rehabilitation services.
Lovie-Kitchin, Jan E.
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Providing low vision care requires multidisciplinary collaboration – how to develop evidence-based practice? [PDF]
Introduction: Coping with the consequences of vision loss is complex and difficult, especially after a lifetime as a sighted person. Successful vision rehabilitation and sound user pathways are not only a prerequisite for the older adult and for active ...
Falkenberg, Helle K. +2 more
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Vestibular Patient Journey: Insights From Vestibular Disorders Association (VeDA) Registry
ABSTRACT Objective Vestibular symptoms impose a high burden of disability. Understanding real‐world diagnostic and treatment pathways can identify care gaps and guide interventions. We aimed to characterize symptom profiles, diagnostic trends, provider involvement, and treatment patterns in vestibular disorders.
Ali Rafati +10 more
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Low vision and rehabilitation are not widely known and practiced in ophthalmology clinics even if there are significant number of blind and visually impaired patients who cannot be improved by spectacles, lenses or surgery.
Parikshit Gogate +4 more
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Low vision services in Australia [PDF]
A survey of the low vision clinics in Australia was conducted to allow comparison of methods of service provision among clinics. This paper reports the findings with respect to the patient characteristics and the planning, organization, personnel, and ...
Lovie-Kitchin, Jan E.
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ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive decline is a disabling and variable feature of Parkinson disease (PD). While cholinergic system degeneration is linked to cognitive impairments in PD, most prior research reported cross‐sectional associations. We aimed to fill this gap by investigating whether baseline regional cerebral vesicular acetylcholine transporter ...
Taylor Brown +6 more
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Visual rehabilitation via microperimetry in patients with geographic atrophy: a pilot study
Background Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the western world. As a consequence of AMD, patients develop structural damage that comprises the fovea and subsequently present loss of central vision, low visual ...
Juan Abel Ramírez Estudillo +5 more
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Referral to low vision services by optometrists [PDF]
Background: Only a small percentage of people with low vision in Australia receive comprehensive low vision rehabilitation services. In an attempt to examine reasons for this under-utilisation of low vision services, the referral criteria used by ...
Lovie-Kitchin, Jan E. +2 more
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Binocular contrast vision at and above threshold [PDF]
A fundamental problem for any visual system with binocular overlap is the combination of information from the two eyes. Electrophysiology shows that binocular integration of luminance contrast occurs early in visual cortex, but a specific systems ...
Georgeson, Mark A. +6 more
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Low Incidence of Relapses After Vaccination in Anti‐Aquaporin‐4 Antibody‐Positive NMOSD
ABSTRACT Patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) may experience increased signs and symptoms of their underlying disease when vaccinated against meningococcal disease before receiving complement component 5 inhibitor therapies. This retrospective analysis indicated an overall low relapse incidence (mean [range], 3.3% [0.7%–10.6 ...
Sean J. Pittock +4 more
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