Abstract

FUENTES PELIER, Damaris; HODELIN FUENTES, Damaris  and  PENAGOS PAYARES, Manuel. Characterization of patients with anterior optic neuritis in the ophthalmological center from Santiago de Cuba. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.12, pp. 1710-1718. ISSN 1029-3019.

Introduction: the optic neuritis has been defined as the clinical resultant pattern of the optic nerve swelling at any point of its anatomy. When the inflammation corresponds to the optic disk, it is called optic neuritis or papillitis. Objective: to characterize the patients with anterior optic neuritis. Methods: a descriptive and cross-sectional study of the 48 patients with anterior optic neuritis, assisted in the Ophthalmological Center of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January 1st to December 31st, 2012. Results: a prevalence of the disease was obtained in the age group 21-30 years (66.6%) and in the female sex (70.8%); as long as, 58.0% of the series had an urban origin and 66.6% declared not to have toxic habits. Equally, it was observed that in 45.8% the disease had an infectious cause and that most of the patients presented monocular damage (95.8%). Conclusions: the anterior optic neuritis showed a higher frequency in women and young people in Santiago de Cuba province, with primacy of the infectious origin. Toxic habits seem not to be related to the emergence of the ophthalmopathy

Keywords : anterior optic neuritis; papillitis; multiple sclerosis; optic nerve; ophthalmological centers.

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