A STUDY ON CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND MANAGMENT OUTCOME OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF CORNEAL INJURIES

Dr Monika Mahilong, Dr M L Garg, Dr S Kujur

Abstract


In present study, 132 patients attending the Department of Ophthalmology, during the period of 1year and 6 months, with
corneal trauma by different kinds of vegetative and organic material. The predominant traumatic agent in our study was
paddy leaf injury (51.51%) and most of the patients after corneal trauma presented with corneal ulceration (75.76%).
Most common local predisposing factor was dacryocystitis (9.85%) and systemic factor was diabetes mellitus (14.39%).
After trauma, corneal scraps done for microbiological examination showed 40.15% fungal keratitis whereas clinically
49.24% patients appeared to be fungal keratitis. Fungal keratitis was significantly associated with paddy leaf injury. Most
of the patients in our study responded to the medical management (65.15%) and healing response was found to be good
(56.58%). However, poorly responsive patients found to have some of the predisposing factors. Structural prognosis was
good (54.55%) as patient healed with Leading to poor visual prognosis (72.73%).


Keywords


Corneal Injuries, Management, Outcome

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