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Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-46236

ABSTRACT

Intermediate uveitis affecting pars plana, peripheral retina and underlying choroid affects primarily healthy children and young adults. OBJECTIVE: To study the components of intermediate uveitis at Nepal Eye Hospital in the year 2003 August to 2004 March. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective study was done in patients with intermediate uveitis visiting Nepal Eye Hospital. Sample size was 50. Specially designed proforma of intermediate uveitis was used to collect particulars of the patients, history, clinical examination findings, investigation reports, management protocols used and the final visual outcome. RESULTS: Intermediate uveitis was seen more in 20 to 29 years age group (38%) and more prevalent in males (52%). Among the study population farmers constituted maximum proportion (36%) and Mongoloid origin was mostly affected (30%). High number of patients were from the central development region with highest proportion from Dhading district (34%). Anterior segment affection with keratic precipitates and anterior chamber cells were noted in 72% of involved eyes. Vitreous cells were noted in all affected eyes while 4% had vitreous snow banking and 3% had vitreous snow balls. Most of the patients (52%) received between topical steroid and posterior subtenon injection of Triamcinolone. Visual Acuity was improved in 52% of cases and remained static in 46%.while deteriorated in 2%. CONCLUSION: Significantly high number of patients with intermediate uveitis has been reported from the central development region mainly from Dhading Kathmandu and Nuwakot districts People in their third decade were found to be commonly involved and Mongloid origin were more commonly affected Anterior chamber spill over was seen in higher percentage of patients than described in literature As the patients presented in milder forms visual acuity improved is of cases with the treatment protocol followed.


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Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Nepal/epidemiology , Prevalence , Uveitis, Intermediate/epidemiology
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Belo Horizonte; s.n; 1995. 141 p. ilus, tab.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-155897

ABSTRACT

Esta tese objetiva apresentar a frequência das uveítes em dois serviços de referência em Belo Horizonte, e sua distribuiçäo segundo a faixa etária, o sexo, o critério anatômico, o aspecto clínico, a lateralidade e a etiologia. Trata-se de uma pesquisa observacional transversal que consistiu no estudo de 5144 prontuários: 2751 prontuários do Serviço de Uveítes do Hospital Säo Geraldo (Departamento de Oftalmologia-Otorrinolaringologia da Faculdade de Medicina da UFMG), serviço público, e 2393 prontuários da clínica do Dr. Fernando Oréfice, serviço privado, entre 1970 e 1993. Foram selecionados os prontuários que preenchiam os critérios de inclusäo: 1887 no serviço público (68,6 por cento) e 1430 no serviço privado (59,8 por cento). Foi elaborado um protocolo individual contendo dados necessários ao estudo, segundo o programa para epidemiologia em microcomputadores Epi Info. Na análise estatística foram utilizados distribuiçäo de freqência simples e testes näo-paramétricos. No serviço público a uveíte ocorreu em pacientes com idade entre 2 meses e 92 anos (média 31,3 anos, DP 15,5, mediana 29,0). Näo houve diferença significativa quanto ao sexo: masculino, 49,1 por cento, feminino, 50,9 por cento. Em 1505 pacientes (79,8 por cento) estabeleceu-se um diagnóstico específico baseado na história clínica, achados físicos e estudos complementares: 1110 casos (58,8 por cento) envolveram primariamente o segmento posterior, 497 (26,3 por cento) o segmento anterior, 183 (9,7 por cento) ocorreram como uveíte difusa e 97 (5,1 por cento) envolveram o segmento intermediário. As uveítes näo-granulomatosas (1740 - 92,5 por cento) e as unilaterais (1263 - 67,9 por cento) foram as mais frequentes. Dentre as uveítes anteriores, as inespecíficas foram as mais frequentes (166 - 33,4 por cento), seguidas por ciclite heterocrômica de Fuchs (98 - 19,7 por cento), EAA (81 - 16,3 por cento), ARJ (30 - 6,0 por cento) e herpes simples (21 - 4,2 por cento)..


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Humans , Male , Female , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Uveitis/epidemiology , Academic Dissertation , Hospitals, Private , Hospitals, Public , Ophthalmology , Retrospective Studies , Uveitis, Anterior/epidemiology , Uveitis, Intermediate/epidemiology , Uveitis, Posterior/epidemiology , Uveitis/etiology
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