Ocular Disorders among Preschool Children in Southwest Nigeria.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and causes of ocular disorders among preschool children.

Methods: A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select 560 children from a total of 9944 children aged 3-5 years attending nursery schools in the study area. Demographic and other relevant data were collected from the children.

Exfoliation syndrome in Northern Nigeria.

Purpose: To estimate the frequency of exfoliation syndrome (XFS) and its association with ocular diseases in Northern Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: Consecutive patients who presented to the outpatient department of ECWA Eye Hospital Kano from February 2015 to May 2015 were included in the study. Each patient had a complete ophthalmic examination.

Prevalence of congenital colour vision deficiency among secondary school students in Ibadan, South-West Nigeria.

Aim: The aim was to determine the prevalence and pattern of congenital colour vision deficiency among secondary school students in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Subjects And Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among students from three public secondary schools through a multi-staged sampling method. Ocular examination including visual acuity assessment and colour vision test with the Ishihara plate was performed for all students.

Comparison of Peribulbar with Posterior Sub-Tenon's Anesthesia in Cataract Surgery Among Nigerians.

Purpose: To compare the akinetic and the analgesic effects of peribulbar and posterior sub-Tenon's anesthesia in patients undergoing cataract surgery.

Methods: In a hospital-based randomized comparative interventional study, patients aged 50 years and above who underwent elective surgery for uncomplicated cataract were randomized to receive either peribulbar block or posterior sub-Tenon block. Pain during injection, surgery, and after surgery was assessed using numerical reporting scale (NRS).

Determinants of Utilization of Eye Care Services in a Rural Adult Population of a Developing Country.

Purpose: To describe the factors that determine the utilization of eye care services in a rural community in South-Western Nigeria.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional survey using a multistage sampling technique was conducted. The main outcome measure was self-reported previous consultation of an orthodox medical facility for eye care.

Evaluating the potentiating effect of amethocaine on tropicamide-induced mydriasis in darkly pigmented irides, using infrared pupillometry.

Purpose: To determine whether prior instillation of amethocaine would increase the rate and magnitude of tropicamide-induced pupillary dilatation in darkly pigmented irides.

Method: A total of 50 healthy Africans aged 18-40 years, with darkly pigmented irides, received a drop of amethocaine in one eye and a drop of placebo in the contralateral eye, followed by two drops of tropicamide in both eyes. Serial pupil diameters were measured using a monocular infrared video pupillometer.

Effect of face washing with soap and water and cleaning with antiseptics on upper-lid bacteria of surgical eye patients.

Objective: To determine the effect of face washing with soap and water and cleaning with povidone iodine and cetrimide/chlorhexidine gluconate (Savlon) on upper-lid bacteria.

Design: Prospective, nonrandomized clinical trial.

Participants: Eighty patients attending the Eye Clinic, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.