BACKGROUND This study measured the effectiveness and cost of a capacity building intervention in 25 eye hospitals in South Asia, East Africa and Latin America over 4 years. The intervention involved eye care non-governmental organizations or high-performing eye hospitals acting as "mentors" to underperforming eye hospitals- "mentees" in 10 countries. Intervention activities included systematic ...

A Cataract, is an opacity within a lens. Out of various eye disorders CATARACT “Clouding of eye lens” is a major problem encountered in canines, and ophthalmic surgery offers great potential for relief of distress and improvement of quality of life. Like a camera eyes have a clear lens inside them that is used for focusing the light. Surgical removal of cataract is a treatment of choice, if res...

Many maternal changes may occur in eye during pregnancy. A cataract formation after delivery is presented in the current case. A 28 years old female was referred from the obstetrics and gynecology clinic with bilateral blurring of vision after an uneventful caesarean section. Her best correction visual acuity (BCVA) was 0.6 in the right eye, and 0.7 in the left. Anterior segment slit lamp exami...

We report a case of a 32 year-old male with cataract in the right eye who has a history of explosive industrial accidents 25 years ago. Foreign body reflection was seen into the old conjunctival scar with slit-lamb examination. Metallic foreign body was expolored and surgically removed from the sclera. One month later, the patient underwent an uneventful cataract surgery in the right eye. This ...

OBJECTIVES To compare rates of eye care visits and vision impairment among working-age adults with vision insurance vs without, among the total sample of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey respondents and among a subsample of respondents who had diagnoses of glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), and/or cataract. DESIGN Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey ...

Reading rates are slower for persons with low vision than for normally-sighted persons. This study investigated the change in reading performance and reading eye movements when we simulated the two most common causes of low vision--central field loss and cataract--and their combination (scotoma + cataract). Three subjects read sentences with each of these simulated impairments at five different...

background: complaining of tearing was found in some of our patients after phacoemulsification surgery for senile cataract. secondary acquired lacrimal drainage obstruction has been proposed to happen due to different causes. this study was performed at feiz hospital in isfahan, iran from september to december of 2004 to evaluate the effects of phacoemulsification surgery on tear drainage in ey...

BACKGROUND A national eye care programme was launched in Nepal in the early 1980s. The impact of this programme on blindness and cataract surgery prevalence was evaluated in two geographic zones. METHODS People aged 45 years and older were sampled using a stratified cluster design. Within randomly selected clusters, door to door enumeration was followed by visual acuity measurement and eye ex...

AIMS Patients' knowledge and participation in their care are important in prevention of blindness from common eye diseases such as cataract, glaucoma, and age related macular degeneration (AMD). The aim of this study was to measure knowledge of these conditions in the Hong Kong Chinese population. METHODS Subjects aged 40 and above in the Shatin district of Hong Kong were randomly selected as...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Despite recommendation of surgery in both eyes in patients with bilateral cataract, there is little evidence about the benefits of second-eye surgery. The objective of this study was to compare the benefits of cataract surgery in both eyes with those of surgery in one eye only. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Two-arm randomized controlled trial involving 296 patients with bi...