1. Ljubica Peric Lazic,
Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Goal:
Optic neuritis is an inflammatory, infectious or demyelinating process that affects the optic nerve. To show changes in visual acuity in optic neuritis.
Material and methods:
Data about patients treated in the past decade at the Ophthalmologic ward have been used. Following was processed: age, sex, ophthalmologic findings, laboratory analysis and specialists’ findings.
Results:
Average age of the patients was 32,78 years. 57,14% were women 30,37 years old in average and 42,85% were men 36 years old in average. On admittance, visual acuity was from L+P+ to 1,0 partially.
93% out of 14 patients had visus from L+P+ to 0,3. Visus 1/60 was found in 28,54 % of patients when they came to see the ophthalmologist’s while visus 0,2 was found in 1/5 of them.
83,3 % had visus 1.0 on the other, healthy eye. 16,67% of the patients had a binocular process. On discharge, the visus was in the spectrum from stagnation to improvement and normalisation.
At the end of hospitalisation, 1/5 of the patients had complete eyesight rehabilitation.
43% of all optic neuritis was of infectious etiology (sinusitis), 21,42 % were autoimmune processes, 7,1% was ischemic and 28,57% were unknown. 15% of the patients had the depression-anxiety component and same number had hypertension.
Conclusion:
People who suffer from this disease are of young age, number of women is slightly higher. In most cases symptoms are loss of eyesight and pain. On admittance, the visus was usually 1/60.
Average treatment lasts 8 days. Complete recovery was achieved at 28,5% of treated patients while others experienced improvement during further treatment.
Ključne reči :
Tematska oblast:
neurooftalmologija
Uvodni rad:
Da
Datum:
28.03.2012.
Br. otvaranja:
651
