Publications by authors named "R Kaiti"

Background: Myopia is a growing global health concern, with prevalence surging, especially in East and Southeast Asia. The World Health Organization identifies high myopia as -5.00 diopter or less, carrying an elevated risk of irreversible blindness.

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Background Refractive error is considered as an important component of the priority disease "childhood blindness" within the Vision 2020' initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness. The large majority of vision impairment in school aged children is due to uncorrected refractive error. Hence, refractive errors are considered as a public health challenge.

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Significance: Loss of homeostasis and chronic inflammation result in ocular surface damage in dry eyes, which is also associated with corneal thinning in established cases. Yet, the correlation between corneal thickness and new cases of dry eyes remains inadequately supported by evidence.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the central corneal thickness of new cases of dry eyes to that of age- and gender-matched controls.

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Introduction: The choroid, particularly the choroidal vasculature, plays an important role in the pathophysiology of various ocular diseases. Diurnal variation in the thickness of the choroid has been reported in previous studies. This study aimed to find the mean amplitude of diurnal variation of sub-foveal choroidal thickness among adults with healthy eyes visiting the outpatient Department of a tertiary eye care centre.

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Introduction: Keratitis is the infection and inflammation of the cornea. Microbial keratitis is a potentially sight-threatening corneal condition. The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of positive microbiological culture among patients with infective keratitis visiting the Cornea Unit of a tertiary care centre.

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