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  2. What Is a Cataract? These Are the Causes, Symptoms, and ... - AOL

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    Following surgery for pediatric cataracts, children often need some combination of contact lenses, glasses, and—if there’s a diagnosis of lazy eye—patching. Ongoing treatment is usually ...

  3. Childhood cataract - Wikipedia

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    Childhood cataracts are the primary cause of childhood blindness. [4] Childhood cataracts make up 7.4% to 15.3% of blindness in kids. [4] The prevalence of childhood cataracts ranges from 0.63/10,000 to 9.74/10,000 children, with a median of 1.71. [6] This is dependent on factors like economic status but not gender or laterality. [6]

  4. Cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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    According to a 2015 study, primary IOL implantation in the seven-months-to-two-years age groups should be considered in children who require cataract surgery. [133] Research into the possibility of regeneration of infant lenses from lens epithelial cells showed interesting results in a small trial study reported in 2016. [134] [135]

  5. Congenital cataract - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 50% of all congenital cataract cases may have a genetic cause which is quite heterogeneous. It is known that different mutations in the same gene can cause similar cataract patterns, while the highly variable morphologies of cataracts within some families suggest that the same mutation in a single gene can lead to different ...

  6. Global access to cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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    Cataract surgery in Bedele, Ethiopia. Cataracts are the main cause of blindness in Africa, and affect approximately half of the estimated seven million blind people on the continent, a number that is expected to increase with population growth by about 600,000 people per year. As of 2005, the estimated cataract-surgery rate was about 500 ...

  7. Health care workforce crisis: Why is New Mexico losing doctors?

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    He said his clinic is booked out for several months for procedures like cataract surgery. "Recruiting physicians to New Mexico is hard," Weinstein said. "It's changed over the last 10 years ...

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