TY - JOUR
KW - Cataract
KW - Cataract Extraction
KW - Ethiopia
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Postoperative Complications
KW - Treatment Outcome
AU - Girma T
AU - Mengistu F
AU - Hogeweg M
AB - <p>Cataract is a blinding disease occurring all over the world. One of the causes of cataract is leprosy. Sixty leprosy and 100 nonleprosy patients were assessed and underwent intracapsular cataract extraction. Leprosy patients with cataract were much younger than nonleprosy patients. The leprosy group had a significantly higher rate of complications and this was seen more in paucibacillary cases. There was a higher rate of visual disability in the leprosy group than in the nonleprosy group. Cataract was seen in younger patients in the leprosy group. This raised the possibility of leprosy being the cause of the cataract. The leprosy group consisted mostly of multibacillary cases, however unlike in other studies the rate of complications tended to be higher in the paucibacillary group. There were no preoperative findings that correlated with a low postoperative intraocular pressure.</p>
BT - Leprosy review
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9033202?dopt=Abstract
CN - GIRMA1996
DA - 1996 Dec
DO - 10.5935/0305-7518.19960032
IS - 4
J2 - Lepr Rev
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Cataract is a blinding disease occurring all over the world. One of the causes of cataract is leprosy. Sixty leprosy and 100 nonleprosy patients were assessed and underwent intracapsular cataract extraction. Leprosy patients with cataract were much younger than nonleprosy patients. The leprosy group had a significantly higher rate of complications and this was seen more in paucibacillary cases. There was a higher rate of visual disability in the leprosy group than in the nonleprosy group. Cataract was seen in younger patients in the leprosy group. This raised the possibility of leprosy being the cause of the cataract. The leprosy group consisted mostly of multibacillary cases, however unlike in other studies the rate of complications tended to be higher in the paucibacillary group. There were no preoperative findings that correlated with a low postoperative intraocular pressure.</p>
PY - 1996
SP - 318
EP - 24
T2 - Leprosy review
TI - The pattern of cataract and the postoperative outcome of cataract extraction in Ethiopian leprosy patients as compared to nonleprosy patients.
UR - http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1996/v67n4/pdf/v67n4a08.pdf
VL - 67
SN - 0305-7518
ER -