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Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of blindness in children from developing countries. Ocular findings are part of a larger syndrome of vitamin A deficiency that includes anemia, growth retardation, immune suppression, and malnutrition, potentially leading to death. Early ophthalmic diagnosis allows prevention of definitive visual loss and, ultimately, death.
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Campagnoli, T.R., Smiddy, W.E. (2016). Vitamin A Deficiency. In: Medina, C., Townsend, J., Singh, A. (eds) Manual of Retinal Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20460-4_118
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