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Prospective study of risk factors for conjunctival bacterial contamination in patients undergoing intraocular surgery
(2009)
PURPOSE:
To determine whether a patient's age, gender, local or systemic risk factors affect the rate of preoperative bacterial contamination.
METHODS:
Consecutive 1,474 patients undergoing intraocular surgery were ...
Tropical ophthalmology--prevention and therapy"Vision 2020--the right to sight"
(2004)
Worldwide 45 million people are blind, 180 million people are visually handicapped, 90% of all blind people are living in developing countries and 80% of blindness is preventable. The global economic productivity loss due ...
Is Credé's prophylaxis for ophthalmia neonatorum still valid?
(2001)
No abstract available
From conjunctivitis to glaucoma. When is a red eye an alarm signal?
(2002)
A red eye is mostly a relatively harmless sign of simple conjunctivitis. Viral conjunctivitis may be extremely contagious. If no improvement is seen after ten days of treatment, referral to an ophthalmologist is indicated. ...
Keratoconjunctivitis epidemica. Diagnosis, therapy and prevention
(2002)
No abstract available
[International initiatives for the prevention of blindness].
(2007)
Since 1974, when the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) was founded, international campaigns for blindness prevention have gained tremendous momentum in collaboration with the WHO's blindness ...
Importance and epidemiology of infectious eye diseases.
(2002)
No abstract available
Removal of silicone oil with vision improvement after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment following CMV retinitis in patients with AIDS.
(1999)
PURPOSE:
To report that silicone oil may be safely removed from immuno-recovered patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) after instillation for cytomegalovirus (CMV)-related rhegmatogenous retinal ...
[Ophthalmia neonatorum].
(2001)
No abstract available
Regression of cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patients without systemic maintenance anti-cytomegalovirus therapy treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy
(1999)
BACKGROUND:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the course of CMV retinitis after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and discontinuation of systemic anti-CMV maintenance therapy.
PATIENTS ...