Volume : 6, Issue : 2, February - 2017

PREVALENCE OF PRIMARY OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA IN DIABETIC PATIENTS

Dr. M. Madhavi, Dr. Zamrudh Shahin, Dr. G. S. Ramesh Kumar, Dr. V. M. V. R. V. Prasada Rao

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12px;">A Clinical study of One hundred diabetic patients, both insulin dependent and non insulin dependent, above forty years of age, attending Siddhartha Medical college, Government general hospital, who came directly to Department of Ophthalmology or who were referred here for evaluation, between Nov 2015 and July 2016, were screened for the detection of Primary Open Angle</span><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12px;">Glaucoma.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:5.8pt;margin-bottom:&#10;0in;margin-left:22.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:&#10;.5in;line-height:200%"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.1pt"><a name="BACKGROUND__"></a><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <h2><a name="OBJECTIVES_"></a><span lang="EN-IN">OBJECTIVES<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.4pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:32.2pt;text-indent:-37.95pt;&#10;line-height:193%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:57.95pt 58.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:193%;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-font-width:99%">&middot;<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:&#10;11.0pt;line-height:193%">To study the hospital based prevalence of POAG among the diabetic patients attending SMC, Vijayawada.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:1.35pt;text-indent:-37.95pt;&#10;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:57.95pt 58.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-font-width:99%">&middot;<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:&#10;11.0pt">To screen all diabetics for<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>glaucoma.<o:p></o:p></span></p>