PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | refractive error |
| Symptom | C0456909|blindness |
| Sentences | 10 |
| PubMedID- 21119991 | With this definition, cases of monocular blindness due to uncorrected refractive errors were automatically excluded. |
| PubMedID- 20459676 | Worldwide refractive error is the cause of blindness in 8 million persons (18% of all causes of blindness second only to cataract) and the cause of visual impairment in 145 million persons accounting for over 50% of all causes of visual impairment . |
| PubMedID- 25371641 | Reported that 36.4% of childhood blindness were due to uncorrected refractive error in developing countries. |
| PubMedID- 23710936 | Half of the monocular blindness was due to refractive error and only two patients had monocular blindness secondary to central retinal vein occlusion and toxoplasmosis retinochoroiditis. |
| PubMedID- 22944747 | 2 one of the justifications for this could be the fact that previously a significant proportion of blindness due to uncorrected refractive error, was due to uncorrected aphakia after cataract surgery. |
| PubMedID- 23826526 | Aim: to evaluate the efficacy of a registration system for the blind people and to monitor the blindness due to uncorrected refractive error and cataract in jing'an district, shanghai, china. |
| PubMedID- 24457361 | In both regions, cataract and undercorrected refractive error were major causes of blindness and msvi. |
| PubMedID- 23894601 | About two-thirds of moderate vi and 14% of blindness is attributed to refractive errors in our study. |
| PubMedID- 23878419 | (6) the proportion of blindness due to refractive error increased to 19.7% in the npcb-national blindness survey even though the overall prevalence of blindness was reduced to 1.1%. |
| PubMedID- 25331076 | Toward eliminating blindness due to uncorrected refractive errors: assessment of refractive services in the northern and central regions of ghana. |
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