Cataract management in Ebola virus disease survivors: clinical and scientific implications

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Alexa L. Li, Emory University; Duncan E. Berry, Emory University; Jessica Shantha, Emory University; Steven Yeh, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2019-02-01
• Publisher: Future Medicine Ltd.
• Publication Version: Author Accepted Manuscript (After Peer Review)
• Copyright Statement: © 2019 Future Medicine Ltd.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/fvl-2018-0198
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Future Virology
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Start Page: 55
• End Page: 59
• Grant/Funding Information: This project was supported by unrestricted departmental grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. (NY, USA), NIH/NEI core grant P30-EY06360 (Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine); Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health of the National Institutes of Health K12HD085850 (JG Shantha), an Alcon Research Institute Young Investigator Grant (S Yeh); Bayer Global Ophthalmology Awards Program (JG Shantha and S Yeh), Marcus Foundation Combating Childhood Illness Seed Grant to Emory Global Health Institute (S Yeh) and an unrestricted grant from Santen, Inc. (S Yeh and JG Shantha).
• Keywords: Ebola; cataract surgery; uveitis; Surgery; Virology; developing countries; Science & Technology; Uveitis; Ocular complications; Persistence; Ebola virus disease; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; neglected diseases; Fluid; chronic infections; viral persistence
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Public Health; Biology, Virology; Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery; Health Sciences, Epidemiology

Abstract

"The EVICT study was the first study to demonstrate a step-wise approach on how to safely screen EVD survivors for cataract surgery, providing evidence that vision restoration though surgical management was safe and feasible in this cohort of EVD survivors".