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- Clinical and refractive features of penetrating keratoplasty (SKP)
- Bookcover of Clinical and refractive features of penetrating keratoplasty (SKP)
- Booktitle:
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Clinical and refractive features of penetrating keratoplasty (SKP)
Our Knowledge Publishing (2021-09-09 )
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- ISBN-13:
978-620-4-07230-2
- ISBN-10:
- 6204072307
- EAN:
- 9786204072302
- Book language:
- Blurb/Shorttext:
- Diseases of the eye are one of the most important economic and social problems around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), corneal opacity is a global cause of vision loss, accounting for 5.1% of all blindness - an estimated 1.9 million people. It is estimated that about 23 million people worldwide suffer from unilateral corneal damage. Common pathologies leading to vision loss include: keratoconus, trachoma, onchocerciasis, neonatal conjunctivitis, and keratomalacia as a result of vitamin A deficiency. The main intervention to restore the structure of the corneaand improve vision in these patients is end-to-end keratoplasty. This procedure is a replacement of the pathologic cornea by a donor cornea.The first successful penetrating keratoplasty was performed by Edward Conrad Zirm in 1905. He performed the transplantation of a donor graft into a human being. This solved one of the major problems of ophthalmology at the time - helping patients with bilateral corneal leukemia. "It was a ray of light that cut through the gloom of despondency" - the outstanding Soviet ophthalmosurgeon V.P. Filatov later noted.
- Publishing house:
- Our Knowledge Publishing
- Website:
- https://sciencia-scripts.com
- By (author) :
- A.M. Tanash Mohammed, M.A. Frolov, L.T. Ababneh
- Number of pages:
- 56
- Published on:
- 2021-09-09
- Stock:
- Available
- Category:
- Medicine
- Price:
- 5048.98 руб
- Keywords:
- keratoplasty
