TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Child
KW - Corneal Diseases
KW - Eye diseases
KW - Eyelid Diseases
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Socioeconomic Factors
KW - Uveitis
KW - Vision Disorders
AU - Kagame G K
AB - <p>A clinical examination of 199 leprosy patients in Kenya showed that 62.5% had abnormal ocular findings, 51.2% of which were leprosy related. The potentially blinding lesions were uveitis, keratitis and lagophthalmos and these were found in 22.1% of the patients. 6 Patients (3%) had a visual acuity of less than 3/60 in the better eye and were classified blind. In all, there were 31 blind eyes of which only 12 had leprosy related causes. 10 of these (83%) belonged to lepromatous patients and 2 (17%) to tuberculoid patients. All the 10 eyes of the lepromatous patients were blind due to uveitis. It was shown that lepromatous leprosy patients are at a greater risk of leprosy related blindness especially from uveitis. The socio-psychological and economic implications of leprosy are discussed. Practical recommendations for the primary eye care of the leprosy patient are suggested.</p>
BT - Social science & medicine (1982)
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6648592?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1983
DO - 10.1016/0277-9536(83)90385-4
IS - 22
J2 - Soc Sci Med
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A clinical examination of 199 leprosy patients in Kenya showed that 62.5% had abnormal ocular findings, 51.2% of which were leprosy related. The potentially blinding lesions were uveitis, keratitis and lagophthalmos and these were found in 22.1% of the patients. 6 Patients (3%) had a visual acuity of less than 3/60 in the better eye and were classified blind. In all, there were 31 blind eyes of which only 12 had leprosy related causes. 10 of these (83%) belonged to lepromatous patients and 2 (17%) to tuberculoid patients. All the 10 eyes of the lepromatous patients were blind due to uveitis. It was shown that lepromatous leprosy patients are at a greater risk of leprosy related blindness especially from uveitis. The socio-psychological and economic implications of leprosy are discussed. Practical recommendations for the primary eye care of the leprosy patient are suggested.</p>
PY - 1983
SP - 1737
EP - 42
T2 - Social science & medicine (1982)
TI - Ocular leprosy in Africa.
VL - 17
SN - 0277-9536
ER -