Background: Central Serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) is one of the common causes of visual handicap affecting young people of highly intellectual professionals at the peak of their career which can lead to irrecoverable loss of vision.Methods: The present prospective observational population-based study was conducted in the Department of Ophthalmology, S.C.B. Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha from October 2013 to September 2015. The total number of patients attended the Outpatient Department (OPD) during the study period were 1,83,199. Amongst which 123 patients diagnosed to have CSCR were selected for the present study.Results: Incidence of CSCR during in this study period was 0.06%. The age group most commonly affected was 31 to 40 years. Males were affected 7 times more commonly than females. Increased incidence was noticed in bank employees (21.1 %) and IT professionals (17.8%).Conclusions: There was increased incidence of the disease in people under stressful life condition.
Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a multifactorial vasoproliferative retinal disorder that increases in incidence with decreasing gestational age. India shares 20% of the world childhood blindness. Besides congenital cataract, congenital glaucoma and ocular injuries, ROP is emerging as one of the important causes of childhood blindness in India.Methods: This hospital based prospective study was undertaken during October 2016 to September 2018 in the Department of Ophthalmology, SCB Medical College. Authors included (a) all preterm infants weighing less than 1750gm or gestational age less than 34 weeks at birth, (b) infants with birth weight between 1750gm to 2000gm and gestational age more than 34 weeks (late preterm and term infants) those were considered as high risk.Results: Among the 328 babies included in our study, the incidence of ROP was 29.57%. Bilateral ROP was found in 76.29% with nearly equal stages in both eyes and only 23 neonates showed unilateral involvement.Conclusions: Low birth weight, lower gestational age, blood transfusion, Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS), apnoea, supplemental oxygen therapy, maternal anaemia and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) were strongly associated with development of ROP.
BACKGROUND Pseudoexfoliative material, the presence of which in the eye is termed as pseudoexfoliative syndrome (PXS), is a common cause of secondary open angle glaucoma worldwide. 1 Pseudoexfoliation (PXF) should be differentiated from true capsular exfoliation, which occurs due to chronic Infrared exposure in glassblowers. We wanted to study the presentation, clinical features, management, and visual prognosis of pseudoexfoliation glaucoma cases in our department. METHODS This hospital based prospective study included 1253 patients with pseudoexfoliative material in one or more of the anterior segment structures with intraocular pressure (IOP)>21 mmHg and /or glaucomatous optic disc changes selected from the ophthalmology OPD of SCB Medical college from April 2016 to March 2018. RESULTS Incidence of pseudoexfoliation was found to be 1.3% among OPD patients who were >40 years of age and 8.9% of patients of pseudoexfoliation had glaucoma. CONCLUSIONS After medical and surgical management, most of the patients showed visual improvement with >6/60 in 70% of cases except those who had poor visual acuity at presentation because of advanced glaucomatous damage.
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