Patterns of presentations at a free eye clinic in an urban state hospital

Hassan, MB; Olowookere, Samuel Anu; Adeleke, NA; Akinleye, C.A.; Adepoju, EG

doi:10.4103/1119-3077.110124

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“…This corroborates the report of Fotouhi [7] who in a study on eye care utilization in Tehran population in 2006 reported that more women sought eye care than men. Hassan et al also corroborated the same thing in a similar environment in the same region although a hospitalbased study, [8] while Clendenin [9] in 1997 reported that no significant difference between genders was found in terms of eye services utilization. [9] The age group below 45 years was more than the others probably because they are more active.…”

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Prevalence and causes of ocular morbidity seen among rural adult population of Osun State, southwest Nigeria

Isawumi

Hassan

Asekun-Olarinmoye

et al. 2013

Ann Trop Med Public Health

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Prevalence and causes of ocular morbidity seen among rural adult population of Osun State, southwest Nigeria

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Hassan

Asekun-Olarinmoye

et al. 2013

Ann Trop Med Public Health

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“…The five least common cases were pan-uveitis, HZO, pingueculum, painful blind eye and orbital cellulitis. This is in contrast with some studies in Nigeria with higher numbers probably because they were free outreach programmes with large turn outs [3,4,5].…”

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“…[1] Adenuga et al in a study at the Nigerian Airforce Hospital Jos, Northern Nigeria reported the commonest eye disorders as allergic conjunctivitis (42%), refractive error and presbyopia (33%) and degenerative conjunctival diseases (5%), cataract (3.75%), and glaucoma (2.65%). [2] Similarly, a study by Hassan et al in South-West Nigeria noted that vernal conjunctivitis (21.1%) was the commonest disorder seen; this was followed by cataract (14%), glaucoma (11.1%), and refractive error (20.7%) [3]. In an outreach in North-west Nigeria, Monsudi et al reported the predominant ocular diseases to be cataract (32.3%), glaucoma (18.3%), and refractive error (17.9%) [4].…”

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Pattern of Eye Disorders at the Ophthalmology Clinic of a Tertiary Health Facility in the Niger-delta Region: The Implications for Preventive Ophthalmology

Chukwuka

Pedro-Egbe

Ejimadu

et al. 2019

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Objective: To determine the pattern of eye disorders among Nigerian Niger Delta region residents as a basis for preventive ophthalmology. Methodology: This study was a retrospective study involving an eleven-year cumulative review of clinical records from the Ophthalmology Clinic of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. Data on eye disorders were retrieved from the Ophthalmology Clinic records and manually entered into a computer-spread sheet. Double entry check was performed to avoid errors in computer entry. The respective eye disorders from the records were summed to obtain the absolute and relative cumulative frequencies and appropriately presented using horizontal bar chart. Data analyzed with United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epi-Info version 7 software. Results: The cumulative total record from the Ophthalmology Clinic was 55,109 from a total of 41 eye disorders. The absolute and relative frequencies of the identified eye disorders from the clinic are presented in horizontal bar chart. The top five ocular disorders were glaucoma (26.97%), refractive error (26.06%), cataract (10.60%), allergic conjunctivitis (9.31%) and bacterial conjunctivitis (5.02%) while the least common cases seen include pan uveitis (0.08%), herpes zoster ophthalmicus (0.07%) pingueculum (0.07%), painful blind eye (0.06%) and orbital cellulitis (0.05%). The anterior segment subspecialty (34.76%) accounted for majority of cases seen followed by glaucoma subspecialty (26.97%), oculoplasty (4.04%), vitreo-retinal (2.4%), paediatric (0.74%), neuro-ophthalmology (0.7%). Cases which cut-across more than one subspecialty group accounted for 28.19%. Conclusion: The commonest eye disorders identified in this study are among the major causes of avoidable blindness in developing countries including Nigeria. To reduce the burden of blindness and visual impairment would involve a concerted effort to tackle these disorders especially by developing the various ophthalmic subspecialties.

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“…Comparable study by Waziri-Erameh and Omoti [34][35][36][37][38][39] reported similar findings with majority of patients (70.18%) with visual acuity better than 6/18, 25.49% with visual acuity between 6/60-6/18 while 4.33% had visual acuity worse than 6/60. However, one study by Hassan et al [40][41][42][43][44][45] reported higher percentage of patients with visual acuity between 6/60-6/18 (46.34%) followed by visual acuity better than 6/18 (39.84%) and then visual acuity worse than 6/60 (13.82%). The higher case of satisfactory visual acuity (better than 6/18) could be a reason for the low prevalence of refractive error in this study.…”

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Pattern of Ocular Conditions among Patients Attending an Eye Clinic in Ghana

Felix¹

2017

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Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the pattern of ocular conditions among patients who attended the Salvation Army Eye Clinic at Wiamoase in the Ashanti Region of Ghana in 2016.Method: A retrospective study of all patients attending the Salvation Army eye clinic at Wiamoase in 2016 was done.Results: A total of 1000 folders were used in the study. There were 382 males (38.20%) and 618 females (61.80%) with a male to female ratio of 1:1.6. The mean age was 45.99 years (SD= ± 27.69). The commonest eye disorder encountered was conjunctivitis (39.70%). This was followed by cataract (24.40%), glaucoma (9.70%) and refractive errors (8.90%). 96.72% of cases of cataract and 85.57% of cases of glaucoma occurred in those above 40 years. Of those with refractive error, there were 40.45% with myopia, 34.83% with astigmatism and 24.72% with hyperopia. Conjunctivitis and cataract were significantly higher in females with p values of 0.008 and 0.000 respectively using the chi square test. However, there was no significant difference in the prevalence of glaucoma and refractive errors between males and females with p values of 0.189 and 0.255 respectively. Presbyopia was significantly higher in males with p values of 0.017. Conclusion:Conjunctivitis, cataract, glaucoma and refractive errors were the major ocular conditions seen in this study. Efforts aimed at reducing ocular morbidity should target these conditions.

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Patterns of presentations at a free eye clinic in an urban state hospital

Abstract: Preventable causes of blindness were quite common among the patients. There is a need for community education to reduce the prevalence of these diseases in the general population.

Cited by 11 publications

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Prevalence and causes of ocular morbidity seen among rural adult population of Osun State, southwest Nigeria

Prevalence and causes of ocular morbidity seen among rural adult population of Osun State, southwest Nigeria

Pattern of Eye Disorders at the Ophthalmology Clinic of a Tertiary Health Facility in the Niger-delta Region: The Implications for Preventive Ophthalmology

Pattern of Ocular Conditions among Patients Attending an Eye Clinic in Ghana

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