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Epidemiology, types and clinical features of cases of ocular injuries attending a tertiary care teaching hospital of Eastern India
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Naskar, Asok Kumar Adhikari, Suman Bandopadhyay, Sabyasachi Mondal, Kanchan Kumar Chakravorty, Asim Sen, Sukanta |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Eye injuries are major cause of disabling ocular morbidity in developing countries. Up to 5% of all bilateral blindness occurs due to direct result of trauma. Ocular trauma is one of the main causes of severe ocular morbidity. Globally, more than 55 million eye injuries occur per year, while there are approximately 1.6 million people with blindness from ocular trauma, 2.3 million people who are bilaterally visually impaired, and 19 million people with unilateral blindness or visual loss. Decrease or loss of vision, either monocular or binocular, may result in significant economic burdens to families and countries due to time lost from work, or school, and family care giving, expensive hospitalization, special visit and treatment, prolonged follow-up, and visual rehabilitation. Because of the severity of visual impairment of ocular trauma, complete ocular trauma statistics and authoritative data should be collected. According to an estimate under the WHO programme for the prevention of blindness the incidence of open globe injuries in the World are about 2 lakhs cases per year which were largely preventable. Survey of large citybased hospitals shows that a huge number of patients ABSTRACT |
| Starting Page | 1072 |
| Ending Page | 1072 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.18203/2349-2902.isj20180833 |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.ijsurgery.com/index.php/isj/article/viewFile/2520/1885 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20180833 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
