{"title":"[Cause of blindness in the province of Giang-Vietnam].","authors":"P Verin, D T Duong, B Mortemousque, N Dorot","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An Giang province is one of many provinces of Mekong Delta, South of Vietnam, with 2 million people and 85% population living in the countryside for agriculture. Main causes of blindness are leucoma secondary to trachoma and mycoses (16%) closed angle glaucoma (5%) and cataract (50%). Percentage of eyes requiring ocular surgery is 0.88% of total population. 1200 patients had surgery during year 1995; as 16,000 patients are waiting for surgery, we stress that this backlog must be reduced as soon as possible. On an other hand, we intend to develop corneal transplantation.</p>","PeriodicalId":77361,"journal":{"name":"Revue internationale du trachome et de pathologie oculaire tropicale et subtropicale et de sante publique : organe de la Ligue contre le trachome avec la collaboration de l'International Organization against Trachoma et des organisation...","volume":"74 ","pages":"57-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revue internationale du trachome et de pathologie oculaire tropicale et subtropicale et de sante publique : organe de la Ligue contre le trachome avec la collaboration de l'International Organization against Trachoma et des organisation...","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An Giang province is one of many provinces of Mekong Delta, South of Vietnam, with 2 million people and 85% population living in the countryside for agriculture. Main causes of blindness are leucoma secondary to trachoma and mycoses (16%) closed angle glaucoma (5%) and cataract (50%). Percentage of eyes requiring ocular surgery is 0.88% of total population. 1200 patients had surgery during year 1995; as 16,000 patients are waiting for surgery, we stress that this backlog must be reduced as soon as possible. On an other hand, we intend to develop corneal transplantation.