Hospital prevalence and major causes of low vision in a tertiary care centre in South India: A Hospital record based study
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Aims To determine the hospital prevalence as well as the low vision causes among patients coming to a tertiary care centreSettings and Design Retrospective study was conducted by review of files of patients who presented to the Ophthalmology OPD from September 2013 to February 2014Material and Methods Records of 4989 patients in the 2060 years age group who presented to the Ophthalmology OPD were collected and data obtained Patients with a visual acuity of 63Results There were 102 patients with low vision who attended the OPD during the study period There were 36 35 male and 66 65 female patients among the low vision patients The low vision causes were retinal diseases 72 amblyopia 15 corneal opacity 9 and glaucoma 4 Conclusion Hospital prevalence of low vision was estimated to be 219 SE143 Among these patients the causes of low vision were detected to be Retinal diseases like Diabetic Retinopathy Hypertensive Retinopathy and pathological myopia amblyopia corneal opacity and glaucomaKeywords Low vision Diabetic Retinopathy DR Age Related Macular Degeneration ARMD Hypertensive Retinopathy HTR Retinitis Pigmentosa RP
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Shimna C P, Jasmine Mary Jacob, Pramod Thomas
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