Universal ocular screening of 1021 term infants using wide-field digital imaging in a single public hospital in India - A pilot study

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2015, Pages e372-e376

  Vinekar, Anand ^a   Govindaraj, Indu ^a   Jayadev, Chaitra ^a   Kumar, Anupama Kiran ^a   Sharma, Praveen ^a   Mangalesh, Shwetha ^a   Simaldi, Lakshmipathy ^b   Avadhani, Kavitha ^a   Shetty, Bhujang ^a   Bauer, Noel ^c  

^a Narayana Health City   (India)

^b KC General Hospital   (India)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

infant blindness; retcam; screening; universal imaging; wide field

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EYE SYNECHIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA VASCULITIS; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; UVEITIS; WIDE FIELD DIGITAL IMAGING; BIRTH WEIGHT; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EYE DISEASES; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERM BIRTH; VISION TEST; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

BIRTH WEIGHT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; TERM BIRTH; VISION SCREENING;

EID: 84937732872     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aos.12685     Document Type: Article

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