COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 100 | 2017 For the last four to five decades, cataract has been the most common cause of blindness worldwide; it is also a leading cause of visual impairment. Before this, fewer people grew old enough to develop cataract and infectious diseases (trachoma, onchocerciasis, measles) were thought to cause most blindness. Thanks to improved hygiene, ...

purpose : to report a rare case of a patient with hypoparathyroidism presenting with bilateral disc swelling and near mature cataract as her first clinical manifestation case report : a 23-year-old woman presented with complaint of worsening vision since one year ago and a history of refractory seizures and headache for several years, being under treatment with lamotrigine 50 mg/daily. slit-lam...

AIM To evaluate optimal standard intraocular lens power for Nepalese eye camp cataract patients. METHOD A retrospective case series of 5109 preoperative cataract patients. RESULTS Average axial length of 23.08 (SD 1.26). Average dioptre intraocular lens power 21.37 (3.04). CONCLUSION An increase in the intraocular lens power used at Nepalese eye camps from +21.0 to 22.5 dioptres would imp...

OBJECTIVE Cataract though avoidable remains as leading cause of blindness in Nepal. Though, Himalaya Eye Hospital rendering high quality surgical service through its base hospital and out reach service in Gandaki Zone having cataract surgical rate is below 1500 per million. Therefore, it is mater of interest to investigate the reason and the finding would be helpful to plan the future cataract ...

RATIONALE Megalophthalmos anterior is a rare, bilateral, nonprogressive, hereditary, congenital disorder, characterized by the enlargement of all anterior segment structures of the eye, with megalocornea, iris atrophy, and zonular abnormalities commonly found. Usually almost asymptomatic in young patients, with most complaints concerning blurred vision due to the common corneal astigmatism, it ...

This is a review of the major publications from the Nigeria national blindness survey in order to highlight major findings and challenges of eye care in Nigeria. The review summarizes methodology and key findings. Survey publications on methodology, prevalence and causes of visual impairment and outcome of cataract surgery were retrieved, reviewed and relevant data extracted, reported and discu...

Materials and Methods: Sixty patients undergoing cataract surgery (thirty eyes using phacoemulsicification and thirty eyes with extra capsular cataract extraction technique) were included in the study. All patients received topical anesthesia with proparacain (Alcain) eye drops combined with sponge socked in Alcain eye drops in superior conjuctival sac, which remained there till the end of surg...

Cataract is clouding of the eye lens that reduces the amount of incoming light and results in deteriorating vision. Blindness is thought to reach 75 million by 2020. Of these, unoperated cataract may be expected to account for at least 35 million. Thus, the burden of cataract is increasing remorselessly. Embelica officinalis is reported to have a very good antioxidant property and thus we hypot...

Cataract is the first of the five immediate priority areas for the global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020, Vision 2020. Cataract was chosen because it is the leading cause of vision impairment in the world and because safe, effective surgical intervention is available that leads to a dramatic improvement in visual function. However, the results of cataract surgery d...