Epidemiology of Surgical Strabismus in Saudi Arabia

Curtis, Theodore H.; McClatchey, Maureen W.; Wheeler, David T.

doi:10.3109/09286586.2010.508351

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“…(2010) data regarding strabismus in Saudi Arabia [34]. The high incidence of strabismus in our study is in line with the other studies related to vision screening among school children in Saudi Arabia [35,36].…”

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

Parrey¹

2020

Ann Clin Anal Med

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Aim: In this study we aimed to evaluate the pattern of eye diseases (PED) in people attending a government hospital in Arar city of Saudi Arabia. Material and Method: This study was carried out on 1238 people visiting the eye out patient department (OPD) of Arar Central Hospital. Anterior and posterior segment eye examination was done to diagnose the eye diseases and treat them accordingly. Results: A total of 620 (50.1%) males and 618 (49.9%) females were enrolled in the current study whose ages ranged from 6 months to 72 years (39.8±2.9 years). Majority of the patients (95.3%) were Saudi nationals. In this study conjunctivitis was found to be the most common eye disease in 392 (31.7%) cases followed by refractive error, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and strabismus in 259 (20.9%), 183 (14.8%), 99 (8%) and 38 (3.1%) cases respectively. Discussion: The results of this study indicate that men and women are equally interested to seek medical advice for their eye diseases. Strategies should target to reduce the burden of refractive errors, cataract and diabetic retinopathy. Availability of posterior segment subspecialists and pediatric ophthalmologists in the hospital are important for better outcomes of cases with diabetic retinopathy and strabismus.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

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

Parrey¹

2020

Ann Clin Anal Med

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“…Although concomitant convergent squint is more prevalent with hypermetropia (9)(10) (11) , hypermetropia could be used also as a predictor more than emmetropia (12) .In our study we found that hypermetropia and esotropia were most prevalent among concomitant squint patients this is going with results from pakistan (3)Saudi Arabia (13) ,Italy (14),Ethiopia and Nigeria (3)(17)(18), on the other hand myopia was the least prevalent with 6.9%(8.075 :1) of the cases ;this is totally contrasting the Chia A et al (15) study where myopia: hypermetropia represents 7:1and Yekta A(16) and also extotropia in contrast to our data where convergent squint predominates , this could be answered by the difference in ethanic races (13) between Caucasian and Asian race .…”

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confidence: 75%

Epidemiology of Strabismus Among Patients Visiting Squint Clinic in Benghazi.

MElbarghathi¹

2019

IJAR

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Strabismus /squint (ocular misalignment) is a widespread problem affecting young children, it's described centuries back when Hippocrates tried to find out its causes and noticed its familial inheritance (1) .Still , the causes of concomitant strabismus -in which the amount of deviation in the squinting eye remains constant (unaltered) in all the directions of gaze -is unclear with many hypothesis and genetic studies to localize the exact causative (2) to obtain the best visual and cosmetic outcome.Early strabismus presentation is fundamental for diagnosis, getting full ocular, refractive and orthoptic examination plus elimination of organic (non refractive) causes to get the best visual binocular rehabilitation before amblyopia is established.The main challenge in squint management in Libya as other parts of the world is the stigma behind (3) and the psychosocial impacts which leads to gender based discrimination (3), low self esteem (4), with lower health-related quality of life (5); plus denying the causative factors and the noninvasive early refractive and orthoptic management which will not only improve its cosmetic impact but obtains the best visual binocular outcome which is the main goal.Due to the lack of previous literature in Libya about squint prevalence, common types, influencing factors and it's associated refractive status, we tried to review the demographic, refractive, orthoptic status of recorded patients visiting squint clinic in Marytr Souhil Alatrash eyes teaching hospital in Benghazi in order to get enhanced understanding to the situation and elicit the weakness points to get the best outcome. Materials And Methods:-633 patients were registered in the squint clinic in Marytr Souhil Alatrash eyes teaching hospital hospital between (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016) as cases of concomitant squint patients were transferred from the outpatient departments after primary slit lamp examination and elimination any organic defect and suspicion of ocular misalignment. In only 605 of them demographic information , history and examination were reported fully as cases of concomitant strabismus, Patients were excluded if they had previous ocular surgery, ocular trauma or any other organic or coexisting eye diseases.Ophthalmic examinations were performed by a team of two senior ophthalmologists, two juniors, and two optometrists .

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“…6,33,38,39 Nevertheless, exotropia has been reported to be more prevalent in Asians than Caucasians although the prevalence of esotropia has been shown to be higher in Saudi Arabia. 7,17,[27][28][29][30][31] It is interesting that reports from Japan are contradictory as esotropia is more prevalent in some studies and exotropia in others. 40,41 However, it seems that the type of refractive error is one of the most important reasons for the variety in the type of strabismus.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…9,10 The prevalence of strabismus ranges from less than 0.5% to about 5% in different communities and countries. 6,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] However, the prevalence is substantially higher in some diseases, such as Down or Marfan syndrome. 21,26 Available population-based studies on strabismus have mostly addressed binocular vision problems besides amblyopia and very few studies have exclusively evaluated strabismus.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…21,26 Available population-based studies on strabismus have mostly addressed binocular vision problems besides amblyopia and very few studies have exclusively evaluated strabismus. 6,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] One of the most important questions about strabismus is the ratio of esotropia to exotropia, which is different in different countries. Although most studies have reported that esotropia is more prevalent, most strabismic patients have exotropia in East Asian countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

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