TITLE:
Traumatic Blindness—A Clinical Study
AUTHORS:
Ravin Kumar Mishra
KEYWORDS:
Ocular Injury, Trauma, Visual Outcome, Visual Improvement
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ophthalmology,
Vol.12 No.1,
February
23,
2022
ABSTRACT: Background: As a cause of blindness, ocular injury constitutes 1.5% of all causes of blindness. In the developed world, trauma is also the leading cause of unilateral blindness and is preceded only by the cataract as a cause for vision impairment. Males are much more likely than females to sustain ocular trauma. The ocular effects of trauma can be far-reaching, so timely intervention is of prime importance to improve the visual outcome. General Objective: To evaluate the visual outcome after ocular injury. Methods: This study was conducted at Nagri Eye Hospital, Ahmadabad. In total, 68 eyes of 68 patients with eye injury were included in this study. Detail history was taken from the entire patient and a detailed ocular examination was done. Results: The mean age of incidence of the patients was 25.39 ± 16.89. The commonest age group presented with ocular trauma was nd decade, i.e., 11 - 20 yrs. A great majority of patients were male with the mean age of 25.89 ± 16.55 accounting for 83.82%. The majority of the patients have visited the hospital in between the time period of 24 hrs - 1 wk (57.35%), followed by 23.52% within the time period of st visit to the final visit (p-value Conclusions: The majority of cases were youth males with the age group of 25 yrs. All the cases with ocular trauma were unilateral. The trauma was common in industrial workers with the majority of the cases of blunt type. There was satisfactory visual improvement in patients who followed-up well.