Incidence of retinal detachment among arabs in Kuwait

ABSTRACT

This report concerns the study of 266 eyes [259 patients; age range 3-83 years] with retinal detachment [RD] over a 7 year period. The condition was more frequent in males [76%], and appeared to increase with age since more than 60% of cases were more than 41 years old. Furthermore, older myopics were at higher risk of sustaining RD, and this risk was also associated with the degree of myopia. The total number of cases with myopia was 125 [47%], aphakia 51 cases [19%], RD due to lattice degeneration 38 cases [14.3%], traumatic RD 35 patients [13%], tractional RD 8 cases [3%] of proliferate diabetic retinopathy, and a further 9 cases [3.6%] were due to uveitis. Preoperatively, 75.5% of patients were in the counting fingers category, whereas postoperatively only 48% had this degree of visual loss