Eye Diseases Seen in Sub-Saharan Africa
My old note:
“Theres no adequate evidence of effect of vitamin A on child ocular health, if there’s measles and no preexisting vitamin A deficiency. However, there is evidence, that vitamin A prescribing during measles disease can reduce death rate. (Cochrane)”
Dear all,
for those of you interested in publishing case reviews of your tropical experience or studies, I think these journals are the best for that, most of them are fee free:
Journals for publications
– Zambian Medical Journal (indexed journal
ZMJ)
– COECSA Journal
– Pan Afr Med J free PMC
– Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol.
– BMJ Global Health
– BMC Ophthalmol
– Am J Trop Med Hyg
– PLoS One free PMC
– Niger Postgrad Med J.
– medRxiv
– tropicalophthal.com – Tropical Ophthalmology Jour
– Tropical journal of Ophtha and Otolaryngology
– J Travel Med
– PLoS Negl Trop Dis
– West Afr J Med.
– https://www.intechopen.com/journals
– https://www.cureus.com/
Best,
Anton
I think I have never seen one before. However, I have treated lots of ruptured lenses. I can imagine how easy it can be a quiet eye with immunologically priveleged lens (no immune reactions whatsoever until it is too late) until a lens develops infection within it.
It’s prevalence in children is around 30% according to the review. It definutely makes sense to screen school children for this disease. But the question is… With what would you treat that in tropics?
