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Abstract #6759 Published in IGR 4-1
Eye tension and open angle glaucoma in a Burkina Faso hospital
Daboue A; Meda ND; Ahnoux Zabsonre AJournal Français d'Ophtalmologie 2002; 25: 39-41
PURPOSE: Studying the correlation between high intraocular pressure (IOP) and glaucoma in black African patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study was retrospective and was based on 235 patients, i.e., 470 eyes examined from April 1993 to December 1998 for elevated eye pressure, at the Sanou Souro Hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. For each subject, the authors recorded visual acuity, age, sex, ocular tonus, the result of optical disc examination with the three-mirror glass, and the visual field examined with Goldmann perimetry. They excluded infants, young children, glaucoma with normal pressure, and patients with incomplete files. RESULTS: The patients were aged from 14-80 years, with 18.3% being 40 years old or less. Male subjects predominated with a sex ratio of 2.26. Visual acuity was lost in 191 eyes (40.6%) and optic disc excavation was total in 214 (45.5%). Goldmann perimetry visual field test revealed defects in 390 eyes (83%). Ocular tension, optic disc excavation of the glaucomatous type, and visual field defects were associated in 70.4% of the cases. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that, in 70.4% of the cases, there was a correlation between high IOP and glaucoma. This glaucoma is acute and appears in young subjects. Efforts should be made to alert our population and detect glaucoma precociously.LA: French
Dr. A. Daboue, BP 500, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, France. dabodier@hotmail.com
Classification:
9.2.1 Ocular hypertension (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.2 Primary open angle glaucomas)
