Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Official Publication of Innovative Education and Scientific Research Foundation
Official Publication of Innovative Education and Scientific Research Foundation
Print ISSN: 2395-1443
Online ISSN: 2395-1451
CODEN : IJCEKF
Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (IJCEO) is open access, a peer-reviewed medical journal, published quarterly, online, and in print, by the Innovative Education and Scientific Research Foundation (IESRF) since 2015. To fulfil our aim of rapid dissemination of knowledge, we publish articles ‘Ahead of Print’ on acceptance. In addition, the journal allows free access (Open Access) to its content, which is likely to attract more readers and citations of articles published in IJCEO. Manuscripts must be prepared in more...Original Article
Author Details :
Volume : 2, Issue : 1, Year : 2016
Article Page : 22-27
Abstract
Background: Congenital eye disorders, though rare, are important causes of childhood blindness. It can occur in isolation or in combination, or as part of a syndrome. This retrospective study was aimed at documenting the causes of congenital eye diseases in a rural medical college of north India.
Method: A review of the case notes of patients presenting at the eye clinic with congenital eye diseases between January 2011 and December 2014 was carried out.
Result: The common congenital disorders were cataract 38 (19%), congenital glaucoma 6 (3%), and corneal opacity 10 (5%) congenital strabismus 7 (3.5%), which are causes of preventable blindness. Other disorders were congenital disorders with autosomal recessive inheritance like, diseases of retina Retinitis Pigmentosa 34 (17%) and developmental anamolies like anophthalmos, microphthalmos, coloboma, aniridia, ectopia lentis seen in 46 (23%) which are congenital causes of irreversible childhood blindness.
Conclusion: Congenital anomalies are found to be the common cause of blindness in childhood. The majority of the cases were due to avoidable causes of blindness. It is necessary to identify important avoidable causes of severe visual impairment and blindness in order to develop control programs to prevent childhood blindness in the country.
Keywords: Congenital Ocular Anomalies, Childhood Blindness
How to cite : Garg P, Qayum S, Dhingra P, Sidhu H, Congenital ocular deformities- leading cause of childhood blindness- A clinical profile study. Indian J Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2016;2(1):22-27
This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
