Queguiner P
Institut de Médecine Tropicale du Service de Santé des Armées, Le Pharo, Marseille.
Rev Int Trach Pathol Ocul Trop Subtrop Sante Publique. 1992;69:25-95.
Cataract and trachoma, the principal causes of blindness in the world, are two ubiquitous diseases with different origins and distributions. They may coexist in the same patient due to their high frequency. They have complex interrelations which raise epidemiological, diagnostic and particularly therapeutic problems which are sometimes difficult to resolve, especially in the case of the commonest combination of senile cataract and presumably cicatricial trachoma. The public health problem raised by these two diseases in developing countries must be resolved. Two easily curable or preventable diseases should no longer be the principal causes of blindness in the world.
白内障和沙眼是全球失明的主要原因，这两种疾病普遍存在，但起源和分布各异。由于它们发病率高，可能在同一患者身上并存。它们存在复杂的相互关系，引发了流行病学、诊断尤其是治疗方面的问题，有时这些问题难以解决，特别是在老年性白内障与疑似瘢痕性沙眼这一最常见组合的情况下。发展中国家这两种疾病所引发的公共卫生问题必须得到解决。两种易于治愈或预防的疾病不应再成为全球失明的主要原因。
