Triana CI, Molina CC, Lugo SN, Ambrós GI

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 41-48
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ABSTRACT

An epidemiological, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 85 patients with some clinical forms of glaucoma, attended and monitored at the National Reference Center of Retinitis Pigmentosa during the first semester of 2010. Among the analyzed variables according to the classification of the Cuban School of Retinitis Pigmentosa were visual acuity, visual field defects, retinitis inheritance and consanguinity, ocular hypertension and corneal thickness according to the types of these conditions. In the series 32,9 % had vision between 0,1 and 0,3; concentric reduction of vision field (5 and 10 °) and autosomal recessive pattern in 47,05 %; history of consanguinity in 17,4 % and juvenile onset in 38.8%. Ocular hypertension was found in 82,35 % with predominance in grade IV typical retinitis (40,0 %), as well as reduction of corneal thickness in 34,1 % of all cases. The visual letality caused by association of both eye diseases requires to be studied carefully. So far, proper measurement of intraocular pressure (applanation adjusted to the values of corneal thickness) is the most useful tool to diagnose disease and to evaluate its progress in these patients.

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