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. 2023 Mar 21:12:64.
doi: 10.4103/abr.abr_108_21. eCollection 2023.

Analysis of Operated Patients with Ocular Trauma: A 10-Year Retrospective Study

Farshad Ostadian  1 , Fereydoun Farrahi  1 , Mohammad Zolfaghari  1 , Seyed M Latifi  1
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Analysis of Operated Patients with Ocular Trauma: A 10-Year Retrospective Study

Farshad Ostadian et al. Adv Biomed Res. .

Abstract

Background: Ocular trauma is one of the most common causes of hospitalization in patients with ocular injuries. It imposes many direct and indirect physical and psychological costs on the patient and the community.

Materials and methods: The present descriptive cross-sectional and retrospective study includes all patients with ocular trauma who underwent surgery in the referral center's ophthalmic operating room for 10 years. A checklist was completed for each patient, including demographic information and the variables required for the study. A total of 927 patients who underwent eye surgery due to ocular trauma were eligible for the study. All descriptive data were reported as the mean plus standard deviation for quantitative variables and distribution tables and frequency percentage for qualitative variables. Inferential tests such as independent t-test and Chi-square test were used to evaluate the research questions.

Results: This study showed that most ocular traumas occur at a young age and mostly in males. The types of trauma in the studied eyes were divided into penetrating and non-penetrating in different age groups. The results showed that the most common type of surgery was corneal laceration repair, and in all patients, visual acuity improved significantly after surgery. In this study, a total of 81% of patients underwent only one operation.

Conclusions: Training and caring for children and adolescents about high-risk behaviors and educating industry professionals to wear goggles, and increase workplace safety can reduce these types of trauma.

Keywords: Corneal trauma; eye injuries; operative procedures; vision.

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There are no conflicts of interest.

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Patients' vision based on Log MAR before and after different surgeries. *** P value < 0.001
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