Visual Outcome of Open Globe Injuries in Paediatric Patients
Background: To determine visual outcome of open globe injuries in children. Methods: In this descriptive study children, between 4-16 years (n=80), who had open globe injury and who presented within one week of injury, were included . All patients underwent surgical repair surgery. Corrected post-o...
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doaj-f7f7ceb960b84019a9b50700334f0c322020-11-25T03:37:45ZengRawalpindi Medical UniversityJournal of Rawalpindi Medical College1683-35621683-35702018-01-01213Visual Outcome of Open Globe Injuries in Paediatric PatientsAmbreen Gul Gul0Senior Registrar Holy Family Hospital and Rawalpindi Medical University Background: To determine visual outcome of open globe injuries in children. Methods: In this descriptive study children, between 4-16 years (n=80), who had open globe injury and who presented within one week of injury, were included . All patients underwent surgical repair surgery. Corrected post-operative visual acuity at 4 weeks was recorded. Effect modifiers like age, gender, mechanism of injury and time delay in presentation was controlled by stratification. For post stratification chi square was applied. p-value of ≤ 0.05 accepted as statistically significant. Results: Visual improvement was observed in 70% (n=56) of patients as per operational definition, which was significantly higher in patients who presented before 24 hours (p<0.05). No other significant association was found. Conclusions: Open globe injuries require emergency surgery as a standard of care. Visual improvement was observed in 70% in this study which was significantly associated with earlier presentation (<24 hours) https://www.journalrmc.com/index.php/JRMC/article/view/28Open globe injuryVisual outcomeVisual acuity. |
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Visual Outcome of Open Globe Injuries in Paediatric Patients |
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Visual Outcome of Open Globe Injuries in Paediatric Patients |
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Visual Outcome of Open Globe Injuries in Paediatric Patients |
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Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College |
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Background: To determine visual outcome of open globe injuries in children.
Methods: In this descriptive study children, between 4-16 years (n=80), who had open globe injury and who presented within one week of injury, were included . All patients underwent surgical repair surgery. Corrected post-operative visual acuity at 4 weeks was recorded. Effect modifiers like age, gender, mechanism of injury and time delay in presentation was controlled by stratification. For post stratification chi square was applied. p-value of ≤ 0.05 accepted as statistically significant.
Results: Visual improvement was observed in 70% (n=56) of patients as per operational definition, which was significantly higher in patients who presented before 24 hours (p<0.05). No other significant association was found. Conclusions: Open globe injuries require emergency surgery as a standard of care. Visual improvement was observed in 70% in this study which was significantly associated with earlier presentation (<24 hours)
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