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Is the NEI-VFQ-25 a useful tool in identifying visual impairment in an elderly population? [PDF]
, 2006 BACKGROUND: The use of self-report questionnaires to substitute for visual acuity measurement has been limited. We examined the association between visual impairment and self reported visual function in a population sample of older people in the UK ...
Fletcher, AE +23 more
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Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2022 Background Stem cell transplantation may improve visual acuity in patients with dry age-related macular degeneration. Herein, we aimed to summarise the evidence on the risks and benefits of stem cell transplantation for improving visual acuity, including
Licheng Li, Yang Yu, Shu Lin, Jianmin Hu
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Scholarpedia, 2012 Blind individuals rely on their sense of touch for pattern perception, much as the rest of us depend on vision. If a blind person has extra training in the use of touch for tasks such as Braille or spatial orientation, then we might expect increased skill as a consequence. This is the sensory compensation hypothesis, and there is evidence that practice
Morton Heller, Soledad Ballesteros
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Visual impairment among weaving communities in Prakasam district in South India. [PDF]
, 2013 PURPOSE: To assess the prevalence and causes of visual impairment in weaving communities in Prakasam district in South India state of Andhra Pradesh.
Saggam Narsaiah +7 more
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Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2022 Age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa and other retinal disorders are the main causes of visual impairment worldwide.
Yang Yu, Licheng Li, Shu Lin, Jianmin Hu
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Case report: Sympathetic ophthalmia after vitrectomies in a patient with Von Hippel–Lindau syndrome
Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 BackgroundSympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is a rare but sight-threatening uveitis, and most observations have been made after typical manifestations occur.
Xiaonan Zhuang +14 more
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Anxiety in persons with visual impairment.
Psychiatria Polska, 2020 Anxiety and anxiety disorders among people with visual impairment are more frequent than in the general population. It is estimated that . of people with visual impairment face depression and/or anxiety, whereas 4-6% of people are diagnosed with anxiety ...
Katarzyna Binder +2 more
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En face optical coherence tomography detection of Schlemm’s canal in primary open angle glaucoma
Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 Purpose: To compare the morphological characteristics of Schlemm’s canal (SC) in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and healthy controls, using swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) with en face reconstruction.Methods: In this ...
Haili Huang +8 more
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Neuroplasticity in visual impairments
Neurology International, 2018 The visual acuity loss enables the brain to access new pathways in the quest to overcome the visual limitation and this is wellknown as neuroplasticity which have mechanisms to cortical reorganization. In this review, we related the evidences about the neuroplasticity as well as cortical anatomical differences and functional repercussions in visual ...
Paulo Ramiler Silva +15 more
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Our previous studies have demonstrated that activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors downregulated Kir channels in chronic ocular hypertension (COH) rats, thus contributing to Müller cell gliosis, characterized by upregulated expression of ...
Feng Gao +9 more
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