10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «XEROPHTHALMIC»
Discover the use of
xerophthalmic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
xerophthalmic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Vitamin A Deficiency: Health, Survival, and Vision
Only 8% of xerophthalmic children (most but not all of whom had PEM) treated at
a nutrition rehabilitation center in India died, versus 10% of non-xerophthalmic,
but more malnourished, children.12 Children hospitalized for xerophthalmia in El
...
Alfred Sommer, Keith P. West, 1996
2
Biochemistry of the Eye
Pirie (1977) made the remarkable observation that topical application of retinoic
acid was effective in reversing xerophthalmic lesions in vitamin A-deficient rats.
Retinoic acid was afterward shown to reverse xerophthalmic lesions in human ...
3
Nutrition, Immunity and Infection
The risk of respiratory disease was almost twice as frequent among
xerophthalmic children compared with normal children (relative risk of 1.8), while
the risk of diarrhoeal disease was almost three times as frequent among
xerophthalmic ...
4
Public Health: The Development of a Discipline, ...
Follow-up of surviving children revealed that respiratory and diarrhoeal diseases
were 2–4 times more likely to have developed in those who had been
xerophthalmic than in their non-xerophthalmic peers.3 Again, vitamin A status
seemed to ...
Dona Schneider, David E. Lilienfeld, 2011
5
Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology
In 1933, Yatsutake described bilateral visual field constriction in a patient with
xerophthalmic fundus (342). Although xerophthalmic fundus is often described as
a rare condition, most individuals who are encountered in the field with Bitot
spots ...
Richard David Semba, 2007
6
Textbook of Ophthalmology
... Corneal ulceration/keratomalacia affecting less than one-third corneal surface
Corneal ulceration/keratomalacia affecting more than one-third corneal surface
XS Corneal scar due to xerophthalmia XF Xerophthalmic fundus Clinical features
: ...
H. V. Nema, Nitin Nema, 2011
7
Diarrhoeal Diseases Research
A significantly higher proportion of xerophthalmic children was malnourished (55
%) when compared with the non - xerophthalmic (47%). This study emphasises
the crucial importance of controlling not only the disease, but also the risk factors,
...
8
Diarrhoeal Diseases Research
The effect of vitamin A in reversing the morphologic eye changes among
xerophthalmic diarrhoeic children was compared to those of xerophthalmic but
non- diarrhoeic children. Fifty patients, aged 4 months to 14 years in Manila,
Philippines ...
9
Roy and Fraunfelder's Current Ocular Therapy
Arch Ophthalmol 122:628–635, 2004. Sommer A, Green WR, Kenyon KR:
Clinicohistopathologic correlations in xerophthalmic ulceration and necrosis.
Arch Ophthalmol 100:953– 963, 1982. Sommer A, Hussaini G, Muhilal H, et al:
History of ...
Frederick Hampton Roy, Frederick W. Fraunfelder, Frederick T. Fraunfelder, 2008
10
Proceedings of the Sixth Pacific Science Congress of the ...
But on the other hand, simple xeroderma is about twice as common in
xerophthalmic children as in xerophthalmia adults (Frazier and Hu, 1936). The
inference is that xeroderma is probably a manifestation of vitamin A deficiency in
such ...
