Abstract

GONZALEZ HERNANDEZ, Yaima Liliana; BASULTO QUIROS, Niuvys; GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ, Noris Thais  and  DE LA FUENTE GARROTE, Úrsula. Inquiry of glaucoma. AMC [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.3, pp. 289-299. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: glaucoma is the second cause of irreversible blindness in the world; its early detection is the only way to prevent it. Objective: to identify the patients at risk, those that suspect to have the disease and the glaucomatous ones, through an investigation conducted in the Medical Services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Method: a descriptive study was conducted from January to December, 2011. Of a total of 645 civilians that assisted to the Provincial Medical Post of the Medical Services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Camaguey, 231 patients at risk of suffering from glaucoma were selected. The patients at risk of suffering from glaucoma and those that suspect to have the disease were studied at the consultation of Ophthalmology with the application of fundus of eye, visual acuity, tonometry, and visual field. The patients were diagnosed as: positive of glaucoma, with suspects of suffering from glaucoma, and at risk of suffering from glaucoma. The data were processed through the statistical programs SPSSv-11.5 for Windows and descriptive statistics to obtain distributions of frequencies and percents. Results: male sex in patients at risk, glaucoma as family history of the disease and papilla excavation for both eyes predominated. Arterial hypertension prevailed as a personal pathological antecedent and more than the half of the studied patients presented high ocular tension. Conclusions: one every three patients were diagnosed at risk of suffering from glaucoma and the 44.6 % of the patients were given the definitive diagnosis of glaucoma

Keywords : PATIENTS; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE; BLINDNESS [etiology].

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