MA Muhit, SP Shah, CE Gilbert, SD Hartley, A … - British Medical Journal, 2007 - bjo.bmj.com Background: Most information on the causes of blindness has come from examining
children in special education. To obtain a more representative population-based
sample of children, a novel method was developed for ascertaining severe ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
K Kalua, D Patel, M Muhit, P Courtright - Canadian journal of ophthalmology. Journal canadien …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov BACKGROUND: To determine the causes of blindness among children in rural Malawi.
METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study of children in communities of Chikwawa
district, Malawi. Children were identified through trained, community-based ... Cited by 8 - Related articles - All 2 versions
K Kalua, D Patel, M Muhit, P Courtright - Eye, 2008 - nature.com In total, 44 KIs were selected and trained to cover 196 villages in Ngabu. They
identified and referred 151 children, 37 of whom were blind (presenting vision
<3/60 best eye). Overall, village leaders tended to choose female KIs (80%) ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - All 3 versions
ASM Ahmed, H Muslima, KS Anwar, NZ Khan, … - Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 2008 - Oxford Univ Press Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a potentially blinding eye
disorder that primarily affects premature infants. Increased survival of
extremely low birth weight infants following advances in antenatal and ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 3 versions
A Bronsard, R Geneau, S Shirima, P … - Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2008 - informahealthcare.com Purpose: Worldwide, at least 190,000 children are blind due to cataract.
Although, surgical intervention is the treatment of choice, in most developing
countries the number of children with cataract being brought to hospital ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 5 versions
P Courtright, T Williams, C Gilbert, E Kishiki … - British Medical Journal, 2008 - bjo.bmj.com Methods: Information on all children receiving surgery for
congenital/developmental cataract in the two Child Eye Health Tertiary
Facilities (CEHTF) in Tanzania was collected for 2004–6. An annual ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 4 versions
K Lekhanont, D Srikumaran, EK Akpek - Expert Review of Ophthalmology, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com Corneal blindness remains a leading cause of childhood visual impairment,
particularly in developingcountries [1–7] .Providingaclearvisual axis during
the critical period of visual system maturation is essential to prevent ... Related articles - All 8 versions
P Medications - medscape.com Bodunde OT, Ajibode HA. Congenital eye diseases at Olabisi Onabanjo University
Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Nigeria. Niger. J. Med.15(3),291-294 (2006). ...
Bagchi K, Bhattacharya S. The profile of visual loss in children - a ... Related articles
G Survival, V Outcome - medscape.com The visual outcome after pediatric keratoplasty is not always commensurate with
what would be expected from observed graft survival rates. Poor visual outcome
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