Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

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...

Article type

Null


Article page

58- 60


Authors Details

Dinu Kumar Arthur, Ganapathy Kalaiselvi*


Article Metrics


View Article As

 


Downlaod Files

   






Article statistics

Viewed: 1722

PDF Downloaded: 552


Co-morbidities among cataract surgery patients in a tertiary hospital of south India


Null

Author Details : Dinu Kumar Arthur, Ganapathy Kalaiselvi*

Volume : 5, Issue : 1, Year : 2019

Article Page : 58-60

https://doi.org/10.18231/2395-1451.2019.0014



Suggest article by email

Get Permission

Abstract

Aim: To assess the frequency of systemic and ocular co-morbidities among the patients seeking cataract surgery in a tertiary hospital, Puducherry, south India.
Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective cross sectional study. All patients with senile cataract seeking cataract surgery in our hospital and research institute from July 2015 to June 2016 were included.
Results: Out of 448 patient’s case records reviewed, there were 218(48.66%) males and 230(51.34%) females. 147 (32.81%) patients had systemic co-morbidity and 66 (14.73%) had concurrent ocular disease. Among the systemic co-morbidities, commonest was diabetes mellitus in 61(13.62%), followed by hypertension in 42(9.38%) and renal disease in 16(3.57%) patients. Among the ocular co-morbidities age related macular degeneration was the commonest seen in 19 (4.24%) cases, followed by diabetic retinopathy in 15 (3.35%) patients.
Conclusion: Systemic and ocular co-morbidities are prevalent among the cataract surgery seeking population, which needs to be identified by the ophthalmic surgeons and systemic illness needs to be adequately controlled before surgery while ocular problems need prompt intervention with a close follow-up for a better quality of life.

 Keywords: Ocular problem, Senile cataract, Systemic illness.


How to cite : Arthur D K, Kalaiselvi G, Co-morbidities among cataract surgery patients in a tertiary hospital of south India. Indian J Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2019;5(1):58-60

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.