PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | corneal disease |
| Symptom | C0456909|blindness |
| Sentences | 7 |
| PubMedID- 26161870 | 3 it has been our experience that although there are huge numbers of patients waiting for keratoplasty, this surgery is performed mainly in tertiary eye centers in china, thus limiting the supply of treatment for blindness due to corneal diseases. |
| PubMedID- 24302819 | It has been estimated that if strategies are implemented successfully to prevent 90% of the preventable blindness due to corneal disease by 2020, blindness in an additional 3.6 million persons in 2020 and 29 million blind-years would be prevented. |
| PubMedID- 22367714 | Approximately 6 million people worldwide are suffering from severe visual impairments or blindness due to corneal diseases. |
| PubMedID- 22446917 | The boston type 1 keratoprosthesis (boston kpro) was developed to treat patients with blindness due to end-stage corneal disease and poor prognosis for penetrating keratoplasty, like in eyes with repeated graft failure, severe corneal neovascularization and limbal stem cell deficiency (lscd) as a result of chemical and thermal burns, provided the ocular surface is still wet. |
| PubMedID- 25268248 | corneal diseases are significant causes of blindness, affecting at least 4 million people worldwide. |
| PubMedID- 24223453 | 136800) is a degenerative, slowly progressive corneal disease leading to blindness in its advanced stage . |
| PubMedID- 23844585 | Conclusion: blindness because of corneal diseases in rural areas of northern china is a significant public health problem that needs to be given more attention. |
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