白内障
视力障碍
失明
医学
疾病
验光服务
模式
人口
透明度(行为)
重症监护医学
眼科
病理
计算机科学
精神科
社会学
社会科学
环境卫生
计算机安全
作者
Cassandra C. Skinner,Virginia Miraldi Utz
标识
DOI:10.1080/13816810.2016.1214971
摘要
Cataract is the most common cause of blindness and a major cause of visual impairment worldwide. As the world’s population ages, cataract-induced visual impairment is of increasing prevalence, and treatment is limited to those with access to surgical care. While cataracts are mainly a disease of the elderly, infantile cataracts lead to lifelong visual impairment if untreated. Even in those with surgical treatment early in life, visual prognosis is often guarded. Consequently, there is an increasing impetus for alternative therapeutic modalities. Makley and Zhao utilize two different experimental approaches to identify novel pharmacological substances able to improve lens transparency by reducing aggregation of crystalline proteins. These data support an alternative to surgical correction that may be applied to adult patients without access to surgical care as well as address the unique challenges of infantile cataracts.
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