Prevalence and causes of vision loss in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections

Autor: Naidoo, Kovin, Kempen, John H, Gichuhi, Stephen, Braithwaite, Tasanee, Casson, Robert J, Cicinelli, Maria Vittoria, Das, Aditi, Flaxman, Seth R, Jonas, Jost B, Keeffe, Jill Elizabeth, Leasher, Janet, Limburg, Hans, Pesudovs, Konrad, Resnikoff, Serge, Silvester, Alexander J, Tahhan, Nina, Taylor, Hugh R, Wong, Tien Y, Bourne, Rupert R A, Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Collaborators (Bourne R, Ackland P, Arditi A, Barkana Y, Bozkurt B, Tasanee B, Bron A, Budenz D, Cai F, Casson R, Chakravarthy U, Choi J, Cicinelli MV, Congdon N, Dana R, Dandona R, Dandona L, Das A, Dekaris I, Monte Del Monte MD, Deva J, Dirani M, Dreer L, Ellwein L, Frazier M, Frick K, Friedman D, Furtado J, Gao H, Gazzard A, George R, Gichuhi S, Gonzalez V, Hammond B, Hartnett ME, He M, Hejtmancik J, Hirai F, Huang J, Ingram A, Javitt J, Jonas J, Joslin C, Keeffe J, Kempen J, Khairallah M, Khanna R, Kim J, Lambrou G, Lansingh VC, Lanzetta P, Leasher J, Lim J, Hans L, Mansouri K, Mathew A, Morse A, Munoz B, Musch D, Naidoo K, Nangia V, Maria P, Battaglia Parodi M, Pena FY, Pesudovs K, Peto T, Quigley H, Raju M, Ramulu P, Resnikoff S, Reza D, Robin A, Rossetti L, Saaddine J, Sandar M, Serle J, Shen T, Shetty R, Sieving P, Silva JC, Silvester A, Sitorus RS, Stambolian D, Stevens G, Taylor H, Tejedor J, Tielsch J, Topouzis F, Tsilimbaris M, Meurs JV, Varma R, Virgili G, Volmink J, Wang YX, Ning-Li Wang SW, Wiedemann P, Wong T, Wormald R, Zheng Y, Flaxman S).

Publikováno v: British Journal of Ophthalmology. 104:1658-1668

BackgroundThis study aimed to assess the prevalence and causes of vision loss in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2015, compared with prior years, and to estimate expected values for 2020.MethodsA systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the prevalenc

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2019-315217

Study Protocol: The Simulated Ocular Surgery (SOS) Trials: Randomised-Controlled Trials Comparing Intense Simulation-Based Surgical Education for Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery to Conventional Training Alone in East and Southern Africa

Autor: Dean, W, Burton, MJ, Arunga, S, Buchan, JC, Cook, C, Gichuhi, S, Mukome, A, Makupa, WU, Otiti, J

There is a huge need to perform high volumes of surgery in sub-Saharan Africa, to tackle the backlog of avoidable blindness. There is a great need to train many eye surgeons safely, efficiently, effectively, and to an acceptable level of competence.

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https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4654987/1/Research-Protocol-SSA-SOST.pdf

Epidemiology and Management of Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia in Kenya

Autor: Gichuhi, S

Introduction\ud Ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) is a spectrum of disease that ranges from noninvasive intra-epithelial dysplasia of the conjunctival and cornea (CCIN), through to invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). It often presents with

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