Profile of low vision patients attending low vision clinic

Abstract

Background:

The major causes which affect the quality of life are blindness and low vision, with major role. The financial crisis of an individual as well as his or her family is mainly affected by low vision.

Objective:

 To study Profile of low vision population attending low vision clinic including color vision, contrast sensitivity, visual acuity, ocular history and occupation.

Patients and Methods:

100 patients have examined visiting low vision clinic of mayo hospital Lahore. The parameters compared are including color vision, contrast sensitivity, visual acuity, ocular history and occupation. Confidence interval of 0.95 with α of 0.05 was taken. The study is cross sectional study. The fisher’s exact test is applied to this study.

Results:

 Most of patients who visit low vision clinic have contrast sensitivity 2.5% (male: 38.34%, female: 56.41%) and 4 plate color vision (male: 60.66%, female: 61.54%). It also show that the main diagnosis in patients who visit low vision is Retinitis pigmentosa (male: 25.41%, female: 20.51%), followed by the large number of male patients of ARMD (18.03%) and Pseudophakia (14.75%). The female patients visiting low vision clinic are normally diabetic retinopathy (19.23%) and pseudophakia (14.75%). It also described that age of patients who visits low vision in large number; female patients: 41-45 years (25.64%) followed by 11-15 years (17.95%) and 46-50 or 21-25 years (10.26%), male patients: 61-70 years (21.31%) dominant figure, followed by 51-55 or 41-45 years (13.11%).

Conclusion:

There are mostly patients with no medical history (45%) come in low vision clinic followed by diabetes (25%) and hypertension (17%). There are also the pseudophakic patients (13%), posterior staphyloma (12%) and high myopic (8%) visits the low vision clinic in large number. It is described that age of female patients visiting low vision: 41-45 is most and most of male patients are 61-70.