Background: Cataract surgery is performed to rehabilitate the visual acuity. Some atients' complain dry eye symptoms after surgery. Therefore, it is assumed that cataract surgery can decrease corneal sensibility thus cause dry eye. The purpose of th is study was to investigate the decrease in corneal sensibility of patients before and after cataract surgery and determine whether the decrease in…
Cytomegalovirus congenital infection is an infection caused by the the subfamily β Herpesviridae, during pregnancy. The incidence of infections among newborn infants is 1 %. One of the effects of congenitally acquired infection is the congenital cataract. A 6-year-old child complained to have a blurred vision diagnosed with cytomegalovirus congenital cataract. The diagnosis was confirmed by a …
Most of glucose solution (78%) in the lens through anaerobic glycolysis, 14% through the pentose phosphate, about 5% through the polyol. In condition sof hyperglycemia, saturated fast lane anaerobic glycolysis, and glucose will choose the path of polyol. In the polyol path glucose to sorbitol. In circumstanees where sorbitol is broken dowen into fructose by polyol dehydrogenase enzymes, but in …
Cataract is the leading cause of blindness globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 50% of world blindness is due to cataract which amounts to about 20 million people. The majority of significant cataracts are found in developing countries. Manual cataract extraction can be broadly divided into intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE) and extracapsular cataract extractio…
Eye injury can be caused by several kinds of objects, can cause pain, decrease of eye equity and cataract formation in affected eye. Purposes. To identify the kind of eye injury and to analyze between the blunt eye injury and cataract among agriculture farmers in 4 villages at Teluk Jambe Barat, Karawang Sub district. Methods. A cross sectional designed study was done, with 1223 samples aged 30…
Cataract is a lens apacity that causes problem on visual acuity. Sixteen percents of cataract blindness in Indonesia were suffered by productive-age people. The paper was to asses the role of cataract determinants in Indonesia. A descriptive analytic designed study was done using National Basic Health Research 2007 data, with 433.402 samples aged 30 years and above in Indonesia. Cataract was di…