Eye Injuries in Children in Israel

Rapoport, Ia L; Romem, M.; Kinek, M.; Koval, R.; Teller, J; Belkin, Michael; Yelin, N.; Yanco, L.; Savir, H

doi:10.1001/archopht.1990.01070050074034

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“…A total of 228 children aged [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] years, treated for eye injury within this period, formed the subjects of the study. History of their injury was recorded and eye examinations were carried out by one of the authors (R.E.U.)…”

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Causes and visual outcome of childhood eye injuries in Nigeria

Umeh

1997

Eye

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SUMMARYTwo hundred and twenty-eight children of both sexes (152 males and 76 females) aged between 1 and 15 years treated for eye injuries at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria were studied. The injuries were commonly sustained during domestic activities (29.8%), at play or sports (23.7%), in the schoolroom (16.7%) and during farm work (10.1 %). Causative agents were mostly sticks, followed by stone missiles and other flying objects. There was a general delay in reporting to hospital in all types and degrees of severity of injuries, with only 28.5% reporting in the first 24 hours and as many as 10.5% after 1 month. How quickly the patient came to hospital was determined more by social and economic factors than by sex, age and type of injury. Visual outcome was best in patients with mild non-penetrating injuries and worst in those with severe penetrating injuries.Amongst the latter the outcome was worse when the posterior segment was involved than when the injury involved only the anterior segment. Our study showed that there has been a change in the causation of childhood eye injuries in the country compared with reports of 25 years ago. The visual outcome in our patients was worse than in reports from developed countries. This was due mainly to delay in seeking specialist treatment and lack of sophistication of the treatment, especially in severe cases.Eye injury is an important cause of unilateral visual impairment and blindness worldwide/ the incidence being highest among children?In Nigeria, studies on childhood eye injuries3-5 have concentrated mainly on aetiological factors and types of injuries. The most comprehensive of such studies was that by Olurin3 20 years ago, in which she reported that most of the injuries occurred while the

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Causes and visual outcome of childhood eye injuries in Nigeria

Umeh

1997

Eye

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“…1 Different incidences of eye injuries in children have been reported. 3,5,[6][7][8][9][10]15 In this study, the proportion of children among all patients with ocular injury was 17.4%. The incidence rate given above may underestimate the actual occurrence of eye injuries in Greek children, since only patients with severe trauma requiring hospitalization were included in this study.…”

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“…1,2 While reviews of pediatric ocular trauma have been reported from many countries, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] there is little information on the epidemiological characteristics of eye injuries among children in Greece.…”

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Severe ocular injuries in Greek children

Mela

Georgakopoulos

Georgalis

et al. 2003

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

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“…Previous studies have shown that socioeconomic status, education, and cultural habits play an important role both in the occurrence and in the outcome of ocular injury [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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