Background: To review the visual status and clinical presentation of patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
Methodology: Multicenter, retrospective, and analytical review was conducted of the visual status and clinical characteristics of patients with RP at first presentation from January 2007 to December 2011. Main outcome measure was the World Health Organization's visual status classification in relation to sex and age at presentation.
Ethiop J Health Sci
April 2015
Background: Different types of ocular injuries could be sustained following banger explosives. This case report could be the first of such reports in West Africa.
Case Details: We report cases of ocular injuries caused by bangers.
Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol
October 2012
Purpose: To estimate the burden of blindness and visual impairment due to cataract in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria.
Materials And Methods: Twenty clusters of 60 individuals who were 50 years or older were selected by systematic random sampling from the entire community. A total of 1,183 persons were examined.
Aims/objectives: To determine the ocular status of commercial vehicle drivers in Osun State, Western Nigeria and highlight the effect on safety on the road.
Design: A cross-sectional-survey utilizing a multistage-random-sampling-technique done between May and June 2004.
Participants: 99 consenting commercial vehicle drivers, registered with NURTW, Osogbo.
Purpose: A prospective study to examine the anterior segment of the eye in patients with diabetes mellitus.
Materials And Methods: The anterior segments of the eyes of 181 patients with diabetes mellitus were examined. The commonest finding in the lids was warts, followed by poliosis and chalazia, and, in the conjunctiva, tortuous conjunctival vessels inferiorly (36.
Background: Developing efficient and cost-effective eye care programmes for communities in Nigeria has been hampered by inadequate and inaccurate data on blindness and low vision.
Objective: To determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision among adults 50 years and older in South-Western Nigeria in order to develop viable eye care programme for the community.
Methods: Twenty clusters of 60 subjects of age 50 years and older were selected by systematic random cluster sampling.
Purpose: To report a rare case of bilateral sporadic aniridia in an African child and review the management modalities.
Presentation: We report a case of bilateral sporadic aniridia with horizontal nystagmus, axial cataract optic disc, and fovea hypoplasia in a 5-year-old female patient. She was managed conservatively.
Purpose: To study the epidemiology of ocular trauma among the elderly in a developing country.
Method: This is a multi-center retrospective clinical study of patients aged 65 years and above managed for ocular trauma between 2001 and 2007 at 4 hospitals in southwestern Nigeria. Age, sex, occupation, residential address, location at time of injury, activity preceding injury, agent of injury, treatment modalities offered and presenting visual acuity were recorded in a predesigned form.
Purpose: To report the effectiveness of non-invasive management of congenital eversion of the eyelids, a rare condition associated with serious socio-psychological consequences.
Case Report: Three neonates with congenital eversion of the eyelids and secondary conjunctival chemosis and prolapse were managed with 5% hypertonic normal saline, lubricants, antibiotics, and padding. Complete eye opening was achieved by the 10th day of presentation and the condition resolved.
Niger Postgrad Med J
June 2010
This is to illustrate the case of a 14 year old male student of a secondary school who fell off the top of an unguarded bunk bed in his hostel while sleeping and sustained a fracture of the left orbital margin, severe periorbital echymosis and conjunctivitis. He was managed conservatively. Two weeks post injury; the swelling resolved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The study was conducted in order to discover the beliefs and attitude of the people towards wearing glasses in order to improve acceptance of glasses when prescribed thus reducing blindness and visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive errors.
Method: A cross sectional study of 198 participants using a pretested structured questionnaire was conducted during the parent-teacher association (PTA) meeting of three public secondary schools chosen at random from a list of schools in Osogbo. Information obtained included the age, sex, history of using glasses, experience if using glasses, whether or not they will allow their wards to use glasses if prescribed and ifno, why they will not.
Objective: To evaluate the baseline visual outcome of cataract surgeries and improve on these towards achieving one of the objectives of vision 2020.
Design: A retrospective study.
Setting: Hospital-based, utilizing 3 eye centres in Osun State, Nigeria between January 2000 and December 2002.
The authors report a case of congenital bilateral eversion of the eyelids with secondary conjunctival prolapse in a 4-hour-old neonate. Conservative treatment with hypertonic normal saline, lubricants, antibiotics, and padding was instituted. No surgery was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNiger Postgrad Med J
June 2008
Background: The study was conducted to determine the magnitude and pattern of refractive errors in order to provide facilities for its management.
Materials And Method: A prospective study of 3601 eyes of 1824 consective patients was conducted. Information obtained included age, sex, occupation, visual acuity, type and degree of refractive error.
Conjunctival hyperaemia and ocular adverse effects induced by a single dose of 0.004% travoprost in healthy subjects were evaluated. A randomized, double-blind cross-over placebo controlled study was done.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The study was carried out to review the ocular factors involved in road traffic accidents (RTA) in order to reduce associated injuries and possibly suggest a standard for driving.
Materials And Methods: The study was carried out in the eye clinic of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo between May and June 2004. A stratified random sample technique was used to select 99 drivers (198 eyes) from 6 motor park units.
Objectives: To measure the horizontal corneal diameters in infants at birth and compare with values reported in other studies.
Design: A cross-sectional hospital based study.
Subjects: All the healthy infants born within the period of one month in these hospitals were eligible for enrolment into the study.
Background: This was to determine the prevalence and distribution of anisometropia and to study the difference in refraction between the eyes of patients with anisometropia and look for evidence of laterality, if any.
Study Design: A prospective study of 1819 consecutive new patients seen in our clinic with no other pathology except refractive error between November 1998 and December 2002 were included in the study. Information obtained included age, sex, visual acuity, type and degree of anisometropic error.
Unlabelled: We describe an affordable, easily available technique to relieve discomfort, free the eyeball and partially rehabilitate a patient with ocular complications of end stage Stevens Johnson syndrome.
Material And Methods: Two eyes of a patient with severe adhesions between the lids, bulbar conjunctiva and cornea were involved. After taking consent from patient, the adhesions were separated and the fornices were dressed with sofratulle and artificial lubricants until healing was complete.
Objective: To determine the ocular and systemic factors associated with neovascular glaucoma (NVG) in an African population.
Design: Hospital based cross sectional study.
Setting: Eye clinic, Department of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Introduction: The ability to examine the posterior segment of the eye accurately in patients with opaque media is essential to good surgical care of the cataract patient. In dense cataracts, the posterior segment is inaccessible to direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy and so adequate evaluation of posterior segment to exclude abnormalities become difficult. There is a risk of poor prognosis in eyes of patients with cataracts who may also have co-existing posterior segment abnormalities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Redness of the eye is a common ophthalmic symptom. The problem causing redness could arise from within or outside the globe. These range from cases of simple inflammation following itching and minor trauma for example, to severe cases like orbital cellulitis and tumours.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: A population based survey of Egbedore Local Government area (LGA), a tropical African population in Osun State, Nigeria was conducted to determine the prevalence and causes of blindness in the community, Osun State, one of the new states created on 27th August, 1991 is situated in the southwest region of Nigeria. It has a population of about 2, 654,244 using the population growth rate of 3.0 percent per year.
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