The Value of Targeted Screening for Glaucoma: The University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Experience.

Background: Glaucoma is an irreversible silent and dangerous eye condition that leads to damage of the optic nerve head. This study aimed to determine the outcome of targeted glaucoma outreaches done in the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital over three years with a view to early detection and timely institution of management.

Methods: The study is a retrospective review of 3 targeted hospital-based glaucoma screenings, World Sight Day of 2019 (140 participants), World Glaucoma Week of 2020 (176 participants), and World Glaucoma Week of 2022 (183 participants).

Prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment in Kogi state, Nigeria-Findings from a Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness survey.

Purpose: To determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment among adults in Kogi, Nigeria.

Methods: A Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB) protocol was used with additional tools measuring disability and household wealth to measure the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment (VI) and associations with sex, disability, wealth, cataract surgical coverage and its effectiveness.

Results: Age- and sex-adjusted all-cause prevalence of bilateral blindness was 3.

Prevalence of Mental Ill-Health among Visually Impaired Patients in a Tertiary Institution in Southwestern Nigeria.

Background: To study the mental health status of patients with visual impairment in a tertiary institution in Southwestern Nigeria.

Objectives: To determine the mental health status of individuals with loss of vision in Ogbomoso and associated factors.

Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Baltimore Reading and Eye Disease Study: vision outcomes of school-based eye care.

Objective: There are unmet needs for refractive correction in the pediatric population, especially in high-poverty communities. We reported the impact of refractive correction on vision outcomes over a 2-year follow-up in the Baltimore Reading and Eye Disease Study.

Design: Prospective, school-based cohort study.

Baseline vision results from the Baltimore Reading and Eye Disease Study.

Objective: We describe the Baltimore Reading and Eye Disease Study, report baseline ocular findings, and explore the feasibility of eye examinations in the school setting.

Design: Prospective, school-based cohort study.

Participants: Students in second and third grades.

Baltimore Reading and Eye Disease Study (BREDS): compliance and satisfaction with glasses usage.

Purpose: To assess the patterns and predictors of glasses wear in a 2-year school-based study.

Methods: Second and third graders underwent an eye examination at school. Two pairs of glasses were provided if they met prescribing criteria.

PREVALENCE AND PATTERN OF PRESBYOPIA IN A RURAL NIGERIAN COMMUNITY.

Background: Presbyopia is an age related loss of accommodation that results in the inability to focus at near distances. Few population-based studies exist on the prevalence of presbyopia among people living in developing countries.

Aim: To determine the prevalence of presbyopia, presbyopia correction coverage and identify barriers to spectacle usage in individuals aged 35years and above.

Relationship between retinopathy and renal abnormalities in black hypertensive patients.

Background: Complications of hypertension are particularly common in people of African descent but previous reports had suggested rarity of hypertensive retinopathy in black Africans. We evaluated retinal changes among Nigerian hypertensive patients and determined their relationship with renal function.

Methods: Consecutive Hypertensive patients who were ≥18 years were selected for the study.

Perception and Attitude of a Rural Community Regarding Adult Blindness in North Central Nigeria.

Aim: To determine the perception and attitudes of a rural community regarding the etiology, prevention, and treatment of blindness in adults.

Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive study was performed in a rural community in Kwara State, Nigeria using semi-structured questionnaire. All adults aged 40 years or older who were residents for a minimum of 6 months in the community were included.

Surgically induced necrotising scleritis after pterygium excision.

Background: Surgically induced necrotising scleritis (SINS) presents as a focal area of intense scleral inflammation next to the site of previous scleral or limbal excision. There may be or no associated connective tissue disease. It may also follow Pterygium excision with use of antimetabolites.

Minimising corneal scarring from the use of harmful traditional eye remedies in developing countries.

Corneal scarring is the fourth largest cause of blindness globally, and a much more prominent factor in developing countries. Blindness from corneal scarring is largely a preventable phenomenon, and is capable of causing significant morbidity that can last for a lifetime. A significant proportion of these cases are caused by the use of harmful traditional eye medicines/remedies, and are used and prescribed by friends, relatives and traditional healers, with widespread use especially in developing countries.

Minimising cornea scarring from the use of harmful traditional eye remedies in developing countries.

Corneal scarring is the fourth largest cause of blindness globally, and a much more prominent factor in developing countries. Blindness from corneal scarring is largely a preventable phenomenon, and is capable of causing significant morbidity that can last for a lifetime. A significant proportion of these cases are caused by the use of harmful traditional eye medicines/remedies, and are used and prescribed by friends, relatives and traditional healers, with widespread use especially in developing countries.

Diabetic retinopathy in a Nigerian community.

Introduction: This study was designed to determine the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy among diabetic patients attending the medical outpatient department of the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria.

Methods: This study was conducted between November 2007 and February 2008. Ethical clearance was obtained from the ethical committee of the hospital prior to carrying out the study.

Trainee ophthalmologists' opinions on ways to improve cataract surgical rate.

Objective: To know the opinions of trainee ophthalmologists on ways to improve cataract surgical rate (CSR) with a view to having insight into actions that should be of high priority for achieving this improvement.

Methods: A survey of 27 trainee ophthalmologists using structured self-administered questionnaire.

Results: Most trainees had a positive view about actions towards raising CSR: Structured ophthalmic training- 25 (92.

Visual function survey of commercial intercity vehicle drivers in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of visual impairment among commercial intercity vehicle drivers (CIVDs) in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study.

Participants: Among the estimated 450 drivers operating in 5 motor parks for CIVDs in Ilorin, 399 drivers participated in the study.

Conjunctival Kaposi's sarcoma in HIV-positive heterosexual Nigerian woman--a case report.

Background: Neoplastic conditions are increasingly been encountered in HIV/AIDS patients. Till date only two cases of conjunctiva Kaposi sarcoma (KS) have been reported in the background of HIV and both in males.

Objective: To present a 27-year-old African woman with histologically proven conjunctival KS and marked CD4+ cell depletion and to reinforce the fact that KS is an important differential of conjunctival tumour especially in the background of immunosupression in Africa.

Medical students' perspectives of blindness, deafness, and deafblindness.

Purpose: Blindness and deafness are important, and possibly, the least redeemable deficits. This study assessed the perspectives of final year medical students, who had gone through two months Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology clinical postings, regarding these special groups of individuals.

Methods: A pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to collect information on respondents' demographic characteristics and their perception towards people with hearing and visual handicap.

Retinoblastoma--a clinico-pathological study in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Retinoblastoma is the commonest childhood primary malignant intraocular neoplasm that is often characterized by spontaneous regression. They display photoreceptor differentiation. This study provides the clinical presentations and histological profiles of retinoblastoma in Ilorin, Kwara-State, in the North Central geo-political zone of Nigeria.

The choice of ophthalmology as a career among Nigerian medical interns.

To determine the choice of ophthalmology as a career among Nigerian medical interns, structured questionnaire was administered to a set of medical interns at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Kwara State in the year 2003. The key information sought included the University attended, duration of undergraduate ophthalmology posting, perception of ophthalmology as a specialty, and the choice of postgraduate specialty in order of preference. Also included were improvements they would like to see in the undergraduate teaching of ophthalmology and whether they support the view that interns should have mandatory clinical rotation in other surgical subspecialties like Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology.

Sonographic evaluation of ocular trauma in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Unlabelled: PURPOSE.: Ultrasound (US) evaluation of the eye and orbit has become an essential component of clinical ophthalmology. Requests for its use are frequent in the authors' hospital in spite of the absence of a dedicated eye scanner.

Traditional couching for cataract treatment: a cause of visual impairment.

Background: Cataract is the most common cause of blindness both in Nigeria and in the world over. Couching as an ancient method of treatment usually practiced by traditional healer is discouraged and has been abandoned as a result of the attendant complications and also because of the availability of better techniques in the treatment of cataract.

Study Design: Records of 9 eyes of 6 patients (4 males, 2 females) who presented at the eye clinic of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital following traditional treatment of cataract known as couching between April 1999 and December 2001 were reviewed retrospectively.

Intraorbital tuberculosis: a case report.

A 75-year-old woman presented at the eye clinic of the University of llorin Teaching Hospital with swelling of the left eyelids and protrusion of the left eyeball. The swelling was painless. Physical examination revealed no systemic abnormality.

Ophthalmic manifestations of fronto-ethmoidal mucocoeles: a report of five cases.

Fronto-ethmoidal mucocoele is rare and will cause visual impairment and blindness when management is belated. In order to improve the awareness of its ophthalmic manifestations and problems associated with its management we retrospectively analyzed clinical, radiological and histological features in five illustrative cases. They all presented with unilateral supra-orbital swellings and proptosis, antedated by head injury in two cases.

Herpes zoster infection and HIV seropositivity among eye patients--University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital experience.

This paper reports cases of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus (HZO) seen in 10 Nigerian adults at the Eye clinic of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, some of whom tested positive to HIV infection using ELISA method with confirmation using the Western blot test. There were 6 female and 4 male patients. Five (50%) of the patients tested positive for HIV.