Clinical Features and Risk Factors of Patients with Presumed Ocular Toxoplasmosis.

Purpose: To determine the clinical features and risk factors of presumed ocular toxoplasmosis (POT) in patients affected with the condition at Irrua, Nigeria.

Methods: The study included 69 patients with POT, and 69 age and sex matched subjects who served as the control group. Data was obtained using interviewer administered questionnaires.

Glaucoma in a suburban tertiary care hospital in Nigeria.

Purpose: To determine the incidence and contribution of different types of glaucoma to blindness at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, a suburban tertiary care hospital in Edo State, Nigeria.

Methods: Medical records of all new patients with glaucoma who presented to the eye clinic of the hospital from June 2007 to May 2009 were reviewed.

Results: Out of a total of 2,742 new patients seen over the study period, 177 (6.

Vascular risk factors for open angle glaucoma in african eyes.

Context: The exact patho physiological mechanizm of optic nerve damage in glaucoma is not fully understood.

Aim: To assess the vascular risk factors in open angle glaucoma in African eyes.

Settings And Design: Prospective multicenter hospital-based study in Edo State, Nigeria.

Risk factors identification for ocular trauma in patients who presented in a suburban tertiary care hospital in Nigeria.

Objective: To determine the risk factors, and the pattern of ocular trauma in Irrua, a sub-urban community in Edo State, Nigeria.

Methods: A prospective study of all cases of ocular trauma seen in the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria from January to December 2005. The age, gender, occupation, activity at time of injury, use of protective eye wear, visual acuity, and findings on ocular examination were recorded.