Divya Vakharia
Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital
India
Title: To assess the prevalence of amblyopia among the pediatric patients visiting ophthalmology outpatient department at our tertiary care centre
Biography
Biography: Divya Vakharia
Abstract
The study was conducted on cases in children coming to outpatient department of Ophthalmology in Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India from August 2014 to November 2015. After taking the consent from the legal guardians, history was taken and comprehensive ophthalmic examination as carried out in view of detecting amblyopia ( best corrected visual acuity is 6/12 or worse without the presence of any pathological cause). Mann Whitney U-Value two tailed hypothesis was applied for statistical analysis. 60 cases were included in the study. 3 cases (5%) had bilateral amblyopia, of which 2 cases were females and one case was male. 12 cases (20%) had unilateral amblyopia. Total incidence of unilateral and bilateral amblyopia was 25%. 10 cases (8 cases with unilateral amblyopia and 2 cases with bilateral amblyopia) had visual acuity less than 6/60 which accounts for 16.67% cases of amblyopia. Unilateral or Bilateral amblyopia was not found to be statistically different in males and females in pediatric age group. In this study the incidence, of associated amblyopia was 25% cases (unilateral amblyopia-20% and bilateral-5%). In this study, the incidence of amblyopia was found to be 25% and it was not found significantly different by age in males and females.