TY - JOUR KW - Adult KW - Age Factors KW - Aged KW - Blindness KW - China KW - Eye Infections, Bacterial KW - Female KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Prevalence KW - Sex Factors KW - Vision Disorders KW - Vision Screening KW - Visual Acuity AU - Yang J AU - Jian D AU - Hu L AU - Liu J AU - Wang K AB -

The acuity of vision of 2145 leprosy patients was examined. Twenty-six patients had bilateral blindness and 80 had diminution of vision bilaterally, according to WHO's standard. The vision disability rate was 4.94%. In addition, 136 patients (6.34%) had blindness or low vision involving one eye. The causes of blindness and low vision were leukoma and corneal ulcer.

BT - Indian journal of leprosy C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9598417?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1998 Jan-Mar IS - 1 J2 - Indian J Lepr LA - eng N2 -

The acuity of vision of 2145 leprosy patients was examined. Twenty-six patients had bilateral blindness and 80 had diminution of vision bilaterally, according to WHO's standard. The vision disability rate was 4.94%. In addition, 136 patients (6.34%) had blindness or low vision involving one eye. The causes of blindness and low vision were leukoma and corneal ulcer.

PY - 1998 SP - 139 EP - 43 T2 - Indian journal of leprosy TI - Blindness and low vision in leprosy patients in Sichuan Province, China. VL - 70 SN - 0254-9395 ER -