A Prospective Clinical Study to Evaluate the Ocular Findings in Patients with Head Injury

ABSTRACT

Background: Ocular trauma is the reason of blindnessamongst more than half a million subjects around the worldand for partial sight loss amongst many more and it isfrequently the leading reason for unilateral loss of vision,especially amongst the people of developing nations. Thepresent study was aimed to assess the ocular findings inpatients with head injury.Materials and Methods: The mode of injury along with theclinical characteristics of the patient were recorded in astandard proforma. Glasgow comma scale was used toevaluate the state of consciousness of the patients. Intraocularpressure estimation was performed using Goldmannapplanation tonometer wherever required. CT scan of brain,skull and spine or MRI and B-Scan was done wheneverrequired. The required medical and surgical treatment wasgiven to the subjects as needed. All the data thus obtained wasarranged in a tabulated form and analyzed using SPSSsoftware.Results: There were 75 males and 25 females. There was1 subject less than 10 years of age. Majority subjects i.e. 30were between 21-30 years of age. There were 40 cases ofperiorbital ecchymosis, 7 cases of lid laceration, 20 cases ofsubconjunctival hemorrhage, 4 cases of proptosis, 7 casesptosis, 8 cases of corneoscleral rupture, 5 cases of hyphema.Conclusion: In our study, Periorbital ecchymosis was the mostcommonly observed finding in case of ocular trauma.