A hospital based survey on the pattern of eye diseases in Arar, Saudi Arabia

Parrey, Mujeeb Ur Rehman

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“…7,8 Ironically almost all of these causes are potentially preventable and or easily treatable, but the bulk of the victims in Africa and Asia are either too poor, ignorant or do not have eye-care services available to them. Parrey et al 9 conducted a study and reported that the commonest ocular morbidity as conjunctivitis (31.7%) followed by refractive error, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and strabismus in 20.9%, 14.8%, 8% and 3.1% cases, respectively. In an another study, Parrey et al 10 performed another study and reported that cataract was found to be the main cause of visual impairment (30.7%) followed by refractive error (24.7%) and diabetic retinopathy (13.2%).…”

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Ocular morbidity during nationwide lockdown among patients attending ophthalmic department in a tertiary care center

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2021

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During this pandemic times majority of the people with ocular complaints were either scared to approach health facility, fearing the chances of contracting the disease, COVID -19 or due to lack of regular functioning of ophthalmic clinics. Hence it is important to understand about the pattern of ocular morbidity during this phased relaxation of lock down. This cross sectional hospital based study was conducted in the outpatient department of Ophthalmology at Sri Muthukumaran Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Chennai, from September 2019 to November 2019. A total of 234 patients were included in the study. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 18. Common ocular morbidity reported was refractive errors (35.9%) followed by cataract (20.1%), pseudophakia (11.1%), conjunctivitis (9%), age related macular degeneration (7.3%), blepheritis (5.6%), foreign body (5.6%), retinopathies (4.7%), glaucoma (3%) and corneal opacity (2.6%). Also 17.5% of cases reported that they had ocular complaints during the complete lock down. Pattern of ocular morbidity during the lock down was found to be similar to the pattern prevailed before the pandemic COVID 19. Considerable proportion of cases reported ophthalmic complaints during the nationwide lockdown and hence policies should be made in such a way that during these unexpected circumstances also, the essential ophthalmic care centers should be functional with easy access to the population.

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Ocular morbidity during nationwide lockdown among patients attending ophthalmic department in a tertiary care center

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2021

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“…When all age groups were included, they showed that the most common diagnoses in the eye clinics were conjunctivitis (31.7%), refractive errors (20.9%), and cataracts (14.8%). [ 3 ] In younger age groups, the most common ophthalmic morbidities were strabismus (36.9%), refractive errors (26.5%), and conjunctival/corneal infections (7.3%). [ 4 ]…”

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Community ophthalmology clinic utilization and morbidities results from a private primary healthcare center in Saudi Arabia

Khathlan¹

2021

Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology

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PURPOSE: To study the utilization of the ophthalmology clinic in a primary care setting through number and type of ophthalmic cases that were managed. METHODS: This retrospective descriptive study included all ophthalmic cases treated during a 6-month period in a private sector primary healthcare center ophthalmology clinic in 2018. We measured clinic utilization by recording the proportion of patients treated among the total number of patients treated in the center, the number of visits during different times of day, and the most common diagnoses encountered. RESULTS: Among 32,518 visits to the health center during the study period, we recorded 422 (1%) visits to the ophthalmic clinic. First visits were 406 cases, and 16 were the follow-up visits. Patients tended to utilize the evening sessions more than morning sessions, with a median of 23 patients per month. Refractive errors in 89 cases (22%) and blepharitis in 88 cases (22%) were the most common diagnoses encountered. Visually significant cataract was not recorded in this study with a prevalence of 31% (14/45) in the >50 years of age group. Seven cases (2%) required referral to hospital during the study period for secondary eye care. CONCLUSION: Since most cases in this study were managed in the clinic with good utilization of the services offered, we concluded that a community ophthalmology clinic as a first contact would be useful in some primary healthcare centers. More studies are needed in different regions/settings before widely establishing the service in Saudi Arabia.

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A hospital based survey on the pattern of eye diseases in Arar, Saudi Arabia

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Ocular morbidity during nationwide lockdown among patients attending ophthalmic department in a tertiary care center

Ocular morbidity during nationwide lockdown among patients attending ophthalmic department in a tertiary care center

Community ophthalmology clinic utilization and morbidities results from a private primary healthcare center in Saudi Arabia

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