Blindness

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 6-year-old boy with facial swelling and monocular blindness. 
  • A 71-year-old man with bilateral vision loss. 
  • A cost-minimization analysis of tissue-engineered constructs for corneal endothelial transplantation. 
  • AAV Gene Therapy for MPS1-associated Corneal Blindness. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Orbits Vision and Visual Loss. 
  • Acute visual loss and other disorders of the eyes. 
  • An Anatomical Analysis of the Supratrochlear Artery: Considerations in Facial Filler Injections and Preventing Vision Loss. 
  • An assessment of the health and economic burdens of glaucoma. 
  • An unusual presentation of isolated optic nerve sarcoidosis. 
  • Assessment of visual status of the Aeta, a hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines (an AOS thesis). 
  • Association of Vision Loss With Hospital Use and Costs Among Older Adults. 
  • Atypical lymphocytic angiitis of the optic nerve and central nervous system. 
  • Auditory attention in the congenitally blind: where, when and what gets reorganized? 
  • Author response: Transient smartphone blindness: Relevance to misdiagnosis in neurologic practice. 
  • Bilateral optic disk edema and blindness as initial presentation of acute lymphocytic leukemia. 
  • Blind internist passes board exam. 
  • Blindness and visual impairment in an urban West African population: the Tema Eye Survey. 
  • Calcific phacolysis. 
  • Causes of childhood blindness in Ghana: results from a blind school survey in Upper West Region, Ghana, and review of the literature. 
  • Changing trends of blindness: the initial harvest from translational public health and clinical research in ophthalmology. 
  • Chemosis, proptosis and amaurosis in a 19-year-old male. 
  • Common genetic variants near the Brittle Cornea Syndrome locus ZNF469 influence the blinding disease risk factor central corneal thickness. 
  • Comparison of amaurosis fugax and transient cerebral ischemia: a prospective clinical and arteriographic study. 
  • Current epidemiology of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema. 
  • Current management of glaucoma and the need for complete therapy. 
  • DWI findings of optic nerve ischemia in the setting of central retinal artery occlusion. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of retrobulbar hemorrhage. 
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. 
  • Do nonpatients underestimate the quality of life associated with chronic health conditions because of a focusing illusion? 
  • Effects of receipt of guideline-recommended care on onset of diabetic retinopathy and its progression. 
  • Eleven cases of sarcoidosis of the optic nerve. 
  • Estimated cases of blindness and visual impairment from neovascular age-related macular degeneration avoided in Australia by ranibizumab treatment. 
  • Estimated cases of legal blindness and visual impairment avoided using ranibizumab for choroidal neovascularization: non-Hispanic white population in the United States with age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Evidence for RPGRIP1 gene as risk factor for primary open angle glaucoma. 
  • Foveal hypoplasia in oculocutaneous albinism demonstrated by optical coherence tomography. 
  • Genome-wide association identifies ATOH7 as a major gene determining human optic disc size. 
  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis highlights light-induced signaling as a driver for refractive error. 
  • Geographic disparity of severe vision loss - United States, 2009-2013. 
  • Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica. Review for the otolaryngologist. 
  • Glaucoma Blindness at a Tertiary Eye Care Center. 
  • Glaucoma, apoptosis, and neuroprotection. 
  • Global Estimates on the Number of People Blind or Visually Impaired by Diabetic Retinopathy: A Meta-analysis From 1990 to 2010. 
  • Global Vision Impairment and Blindness Due to Uncorrected Refractive Error, 1990-2010. 
  • Global causes of blindness and distance vision impairment 1990-2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Global prevalence of glaucoma and projections of glaucoma burden through 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Global prevalence of visual impairment associated with myopic macular degeneration and temporal trends from 2000 through 2050: systematic review, meta-analysis and modelling. 
  • Hairpulling causing vision loss: a case report. 
  • High-risk populations for vision loss and eye care underutilization: a review of the literature and ideas on moving forward. 
  • How I do it: total resection of a giant sphenoclinoidal meningioma with normalization of near blind vision. 
  • Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy: screening needed to prevent blindness. 
  • Hypotony and the Argus II retinal prosthesis: causes, prevention and management. 
  • Identification of a nonsense mutation at codon 128 of the Norrie's disease gene in a male infant. 
  • Identifying Risk Factors for Blindness From Glaucoma at First Presentation to a Tertiary Clinic. 
  • Impact of glaucoma severity and laterality on vision-specific functioning: the Singapore Malay eye study. 
  • Impaired monocyte cholesterol clearance initiates age-related retinal degeneration and vision loss. 
  • In vivo measurement of trabecular meshwork stiffness in a corticosteroid-induced ocular hypertensive mouse model. 
  • Incidence estimation using a single cross-sectional age-specific prevalence survey with differential mortality. 
  • Influence of gestational age on death and neurodevelopmental outcome in premature infants with severe intracranial hemorrhage. 
  • Interaction of nephrocystin-4 and RPGRIP1 is disrupted by nephronophthisis or Leber congenital amaurosis-associated mutations. 
  • Longitudinal analysis of the relationship between regular eye examinations and changes in visual and functional status. 
  • Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Metabolic syndrome and eye diseases. 
  • Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Vasculopathy Presenting as Impending Central Retinal Artery Occlusion. 
  • New systematic review methodology for visual impairment and blindness for the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study. 
  • Number of People Blind or Visually Impaired by Cataract Worldwide and in World Regions, 1990 to 2010. 
  • Number of People Blind or Visually Impaired by Glaucoma Worldwide and in World Regions 1990 - 2010: A Meta-Analysis. 
  • Occult temporal arteritis. 
  • Occult temporal arteritis: a cause of complete blindness. 
  • Oral and maxillofacial surgeons' role in the first successful modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis performed in the United States. 
  • Paroxetine-pimozide drug interaction. 
  • Pathologic quiz case: left eye proptosis, ptosis, and blindness. Hemangiopericytoma of the orbit. 
  • Phthisis after endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation. 
  • Prevalence and causes of low vision and blindness in a rural chinese adult population: the Handan Eye Study. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in Central and South Asia: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in East Asia: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in Latin America and the Caribbean: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in North Africa and the Middle East: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in Southeast Asia and Oceania: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in sub-Saharan Africa: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in South-east Asia and Oceania in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections. 
  • Prevalence and causes of visual impairment and blindness in an urban Indian population: the Singapore Indian Eye Study. 
  • Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy and Blindness in Indonesian Adults With Type 2 Diabetes. 
  • Prevalence of major eye diseases among US Civil War veterans, 1890-1910 
  • Rationale and Methodology for a Community-Based Study of Diabetic Retinopathy in an Indonesian Population with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Jogjakarta Eye Diabetic Study in the Community. 
  • Recurrent Monocular Vision Loss and an Ocular Mass. 
  • Retinal ganglion cell genesis requires lakritz, a Zebrafish atonal Homolog. 
  • Retinal oxalosis in two diabetic patients. 
  • Retinal vessels change in primary angle-closure glaucoma: the Handan Eye Study. 
  • Retinopathy of prematurity: the disease process, classifications, screening, treatment, and outcomes. 
  • SCORE Study Report 7: incidence of intravitreal silicone oil droplets associated with staked-on vs luer cone syringe design. 
  • Silicone and blindness: computed tomography imaging. 
  • Single- and Multi-Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery Dose Tolerances of the Optic Pathways. 
  • Sociodemographic, lifestyle, and medical risk factors for visual impairment in an urban asian population: the singapore malay eye study. 
  • Subacute vision loss in a young, obese female. 
  • Successful management of orbital cellulitis and temporary visual loss after blepharoplasty. 
  • The effects of technological advances on outcomes for elderly persons with exudative age-related macular degeneration. 
  • The glaucoma research foundation patient survey: patient understanding of glaucoma and its treatment. 
  • The impact of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema on health-related quality of life in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. 
  • The natural history and prognosis of neovascular age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis. 
  • The role of genetics in susceptibility to diabetic retinopathy. 
  • The use of silicone oil in uveitis and hypotony. 
  • Transient cortical blindness in an infant exposed to methamphetamine. 
  • Transient smartphone blindness: Relevance to misdiagnosis in neurologic practice. 
  • Trends in the pattern of blindness and major ocular diseases in Singapore and Asia. 
  • Trends of Visual Impairment and Blindness in the Singapore Chinese Population over a Decade. 
  • Unilateral transient vision loss associated with an opacified Onodi cell. 
  • Unmasking Proteolytic Activity for Adult Visual Cortex Plasticity by the Removal of Lynx1. 
  • Venous sinus stenting is a valuable treatment for fulminant idiopathic intracranial hypertension. 
  • Vision impairment and major causes of vision loss impacts on vision-specific functioning independent of socioeconomic factors. 
  • Vision loss among diabetics in a group model Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). 
  • Visual Impairment in Old and Very Old Community-dwelling Asian Adults. 
  • Visual impairment and blindness due to macular diseases globally: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Visual loss after corrective surgery for pediatric scoliosis: incidence and risk factors from a nationwide database. 
  • Whole-body hypothermia for neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. 
  • Why Patients With Glaucoma Lose Vision: The Patient Perspective. 
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  • Ferreira, Paulo Alexandre, Associate Professor in Ophthalmology, Pathology