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Blacks at Greater Cataract Risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 19 - Blacks are significantly more likely to develop cataracts than are whites, investigators with the Barbados Eye Studies Group report in the March issue of Ophthalmology.

In fact, lead author Dr. M. Cristina Le... [ More ]

British Public Unaware Smoking Can Lead to Macular Degeneration

By Stephen Pincock

LONDON (Reuters Health) Mar 04 - One in four cases of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is caused by smoking, but too few people in the UK are aware of the link, according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal ... [ More ]

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Uniocular ptosis due to cysticercosis of extraocular muscle [clinical brief]
Involvement of extraocular muscle by Cysticercus cellulosae is very rare. Rarer still is the isolated involvement of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle presenting clinically as ptosis. We report here such a presentation in an eleven years old gi... [ More ]

Ophthalmic manifestations of HIV
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This review is intended to describe the most common ophthalmic manifestations of HIV infection. It is estimated that more than 70% of adult AIDS patients will experience an ocular complication at some point of the disease. Orbital and ad... [ More ]

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