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Childhood Onset Visual Impairment and Blindness

Results of the Blind Schools Survey in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

between 1985-1987

Ismail K Jalili

MB;BCh, FRCS, DO, FRCOphth

First published on the web in 2006


			Contents
			Acknowledgement
			Preface
			Abbreviations

	Introductions		Historical Preamble
			History and Geography of the Region
			Demography of the Arab World and Palestine
			Aims and Objectives of the Blind Schools Survey

	Review of Literature on Blindness

			Historical Aspects and Data Collection
			Blinding Conditions
			Blindness Worldwide
			Blindness in the Middle East Crescent (including the Arab & Muslim World)
			Childhood Blindness Worldwide
			Childhood Blindness in the Middle East Crescent
			Prevention of Blindness
			Consanguinity



	Patients and Methods

	Results		Of survey of childhood onset visual impairment and blindness
			Patients, Sibships and Pedigrees
			Visual Acuities
			Anatomical Classifications of Causes of Visual Impairment
			Aetiological Classifications of Causes of Visual Impairment
			Non-Hereditary Conditions of Causes of Visual Impairment
			Clinical Conditions in the survey
			Marriage Patterns (Consanguinty) - click for Gaza A pedigree chart Jalili Syndrome
			Prevalence and Family Information



	Conclusions		Discussion
			Summary of Findings

	Bibliography		References

	Appendices		Instruction Booklet

			(Basic instructions to nurses and paramedics that were used during the blind schools survey in the West Bank & Gaza Strip between October 1985 to 1987).

			Proposed Prevention Programme: Recommendations - (1987)
			In conjunction with Dr Peter Qumri, Consultant Surgeon, Friends of the Sick Society, Bethlehem

	Colour Plates (Photographs)

	a		Photographs of St John Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem
	b		Photographs on the history of Palestine
	c		Photographs of the outpatient clinics
	d		Photographs from Southern Sudan
	e		Photographs on the Screening in the Gaza Strip, 1985-1987
	f		Photographs of the Blind schools and UNRWA Training Centre in Gaza 1985-1978
	g		Photographs of corneal infection from measles from an epidemic in 1914
	h		Photographs of cases of trauma from bomb explosion in Gaza Strip
	i		Photographs of congenital corneal oedema
	j		Photographs of syndromatic ectopia lentis with hypogentalia
	k		Photographs of advanced congenital glaucoma
	l		Photographs of the spectrum of microphthalmia from Gaza Strip
	m		Photographs of albinism in large pedigrees.
	n		Photographs of skin lesions in albinism.
	o		Photographs of the evolution of macular changes in cone-rd dystrophies
	p		Photographs of the evolution of lesions in amelogenesis imperfecta
	q		Photographs of trichomegaly with congenital hypertrichosis and congenital amaurosis of the cone-rod
	r		Photographs of severe photophobia improvement with dark tinted filter (red glasses)
	s		Photographs of advanced metastasised retinoblastoma in a Palestinian child (terminal)
	t		Photographs of extra digits, leucocoria as a result of optic nerve hypoplasia
	u		Photographs shanty town in Jabalia camp, 1985-1987
	v		Photographs of the states of roads in the Gaza Strip 1985-1987

			Pedigree Charts (Gaza A: Cone Rod Dystrophy & Amelogenesis Imperfecta -Jalili Syndrome #1)