Outcomes of manual small-incision cataract surgery using standard 22 dioptre intraocular lenses at Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi

International Ophthalmology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 341-347

  Sherwin, Justin C ^a,b   Dean, William H ^c,d   Schaefers, Isabelle ^c   Courtright, Paul ^e   Metcalfe, Nick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Nkhoma Eye Hospital   (Malawi)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Good Samaritan Foundation   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cataract surgery; ECCE; Epidemiology; Malawi

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; AGING; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE RUPTURE; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RURAL AREA; SCAR FORMATION; SMALL INCISION CATARACT SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84864288053     PISSN: 01655701     EISSN: 15732630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10792-012-9565-x     Document Type: Article

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