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VERDECIA MARTINEZ, Alexi et al. Clinical and epidemiological characterization of patients with hyphema due to ocular traumatism. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.8, pp.1101-1106. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive, retrospective and longitudinal study of 34 patients with hyphema caused by trauma, admitted in the Ophthalmology Service of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January to December, 2013, aimed at characterizing them according to some clinical and epidemiological variables. A prevalence of the male sex was observed in the series (64.7%) and the age group 40-49 (32.4%); while, the degree I hyphema was clinically the most representative (41.2%), caused by contusion traumas in most of the affected ones (76.5%), and the most frequent complications were the ocular hypertension (23.5%) and uveitis (17.6%). However, the appropriate and opportune treatment allowed that the highest percentage of the patients improved the visual acuity

Palabras clave : hyphema; ocular trauma; visual acuity; ocular hypertension; uveitis; Ophthalmology Service.

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