1998
DOI: 10.5935/0004-2749.19980029
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Número de olhos cegos por glaucoma detectados em primeira consulta num hospital universitário

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“…These findings are similar to those found by a Brazilian study (10) , in which the authors reported that 40 (83.3%) of 48 eyes were already legally blind when they were examined for the first time. Another Brazilian study (11) reported a smaller proportion of blind patients (51.8% with unilateral blindness and 33.3% with bilateral blindness) when they arrived at their Service. The criterion for blindness was a visual acuity < 20/200.…”
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“…These findings are similar to those found by a Brazilian study (10) , in which the authors reported that 40 (83.3%) of 48 eyes were already legally blind when they were examined for the first time. Another Brazilian study (11) reported a smaller proportion of blind patients (51.8% with unilateral blindness and 33.3% with bilateral blindness) when they arrived at their Service. The criterion for blindness was a visual acuity < 20/200.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…The criterion for blindness was a visual acuity < 20/200. In relation to the type of glaucoma, that paper (11) found that 90.9% of patients with NVG, 75.0% of patients with uveitic glaucoma and 60.0% of patients with glaucoma associated with pseudoexfoliation were already blind when they arrived at the Service. In the present paper, NVG (84.7%), postsurgical glaucoma (66.9%), and PACG (56.6%) were the types of glaucoma that presented the highest proportion of patients who were already blind when they arrived at the Glaucoma Service.…”
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“…O glaucoma constitui um problema de saúde pública tendo em vista a alta freqüência de incapacidade visual que acarreta (1)(2)(3) . A Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) sugere que 80% da cegueira encontrada nos países em desenvolvimento pode ser prevenida ou curada (4) .…”
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“…2 Doutor, chefe do setor de Glaucoma da Universidade Federal de São Paulo -UNIFESP. 3 Livre-docente do Departamento de Oftalmologia, setor de Glaucoma da Universidade Federal de São Paulo -UNIFESP.…”
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