The Main Causes of Blindness in Patients Presenting at Retina Clinic
published by Aِl-Baath University
in 2016
in Medicine
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
This study aim to determine the percentage of Blindness among
patients, who visit retina clinic, and to know the main retinopathies
leading to blindness, and to achieve this purpose, medical records of
852 patients who visited retina clinic between January 2015 and
January 2016 were analyzed. That information was classified
according to the visual acuity and retinopathy. Data was entered and
analyzed using SPSS version 23.
References used
Vision 2020 & WHO, "GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS ACTION PLAN 2006–2011," Geneva, 2006
World Health Organization, "GLOBAL DATA ON VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS," World Health Organization, Geneva, 2010
World Health Organization, "Change the Definition of Blindness," WHO, Geneva Switzerland, 2006