Caritas : OMS : Blindness in the Wolrd & MALVOYANTS: PREMIER SUCCÈS DE GREFFES CELLULAIRES

Pour la première fois, des patients souffrant d’atteinte de la cornée ont récupéré une activité visuelle par thérapie cellulaire. Quelles sont les lésions plus fréquentes ?
Pr José-Alain Sahel.
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Key facts
285 million people are visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 have low vision.
About 90% of the world's visually impaired live in developing countries.
Globally, uncorrected refractive errors are the main cause of visual impairment; cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness in middle- and low-income countries.
The number of people visually impaired from infectious diseases has greatly reduced in the last 20 years.
80% of all visual impairment can be avoided or cured.
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