Abstract
Purpose: To assess the frequency of different eye morbidities in the patients
presenting at a tertiary care Hospital in Peshawar.
Study Design: Cross sectional study.
Place and Duration of Study: Ophthalmology unit of Rehman Medical Institute
(RMI), Peshawar from February 2004 to month of March 2014.
Material & Methods: This research involved accessing the data bank kept by
the Hospital. All ocular morbidities seen during the study period was included in
the study while those who presented with the diseases of the eye due to some
other systemic condition were excluded. Patients were categorized according to
their gender and year of admission. The age categories were divided into 5
groups, 0-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-100 years’ category. The data collected
was analyzed using MS Excel 2013.
Results: A total of 1869 patients were examined out of which 49.92% were
male and 50.07% were female. The ocular examination revealed that out of the
1869 patients, 57.30% of the patients suffered from Cataract, 4.86% patients
suffered from Pterygium, 4.76% suffered from Strabismus, 1.65% patients
suffered from Glaucoma and the remaining 31.43% suffered from various
spectrum of diseases. Female preponderance was more than males in the
sense of general morbidity of ocular disorders.Conclusion: Cataract was found to be the most common ocular morbidity
found in all age groups.
Muhammad Rafiq Afridi, Khalid Saifullah Baig, Omer Nasim, Salman Khan. (2019) A Spectrum of Ophthalmic Diseases in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Peshawar, KPK; a 10-Year Retrospective Study, Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology, Volume 35, Issue 2.
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