Research

Intraocular pressure screening during high-volume cataract surgery outreach in Ethiopia

Oct 5, 2022

Approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide have visual impairment; refractive error and cataracts are the most common cause of reversible blindness while glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness [1]...

Cataract Surgery: A Nepalese Perspective

Jan 1, 2022

Artificial intelligence in global ophthalmology: using machine learning to improve cataract surgery outcomes at Ethiopian outreaches

Jan 1, 2021

Differences between target and implanted intraocular lens (IOL) power in Ethiopian cataract outreach campaigns were evaluated, and machine learning (ML) was applied to optimize the IOL inventory and minimize avoidable...

The individual and household impacts of cataract surgery on older blind adults in ethiopia

Feb 26, 2019

To comprehensively measure the impacts of cataract surgery on patients' activities and mental and physical health, caregivers' well-being, and household incomes in a resource-poor setting Methods: One thousand two hundred...

Scleral fixation of a posterior chamber intraocular lens combined with penetrating keratoplasty in an aphakic patient with microcornea and microphthalmia

Apr 6, 2016

Aphakia after a cataract surgery could be attributed to many reasons, including lack of capsular support or insufficient surgical experience for scleral fixation. Iris-fixated intraocular lenses (IOLs), anterior chamber (angle...

Blindness, cataract surgery and mortality in Ethiopia

Jan 1, 2016

To examine the relationships between blindness, the intervention of cataract surgery and all-cause mortality in a rural Ethiopian population.

Health literacy of common ocular diseases in Nepal

Jan 8, 2014

In 1981, the Nepal Blindness Survey provided the first epidemiological information on the prevalence of blindness in Nepal. The prevalence of blindness in Nepal was estimated to be 0.84% and...

Turning the tide of corneal blindness

Sep 1, 2012

Eliminating treatable corneal blindness presents a daunting but surmountable challenge for the upcoming decades. Over the past 30 years, large strides have been made toward addressing the root causes of...

Outcomes of cataract surgery: a population-based developing world study in the Bhaktapur district, Nepal

Dec 1, 2011

To evaluate the visual outcome after cataract surgery in a population of Nepal.