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Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity among Eye Surgical Patients at a Rural Eye Care Facility in South-Eastern Nigeria

PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of human immunodeficiency infection among patients who underwent surgery at a rural eye care facility in southeastern Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective chart review was performed for all patients who had undergone surgery and a pre-operative Human I...

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Autores principales: Okoye, Obiekwe, Magulike, Nwabueze, Chuka-Okosa, Chimdi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22346121
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.92122
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author Okoye, Obiekwe
Magulike, Nwabueze
Chuka-Okosa, Chimdi
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Magulike, Nwabueze
Chuka-Okosa, Chimdi
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description PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of human immunodeficiency infection among patients who underwent surgery at a rural eye care facility in southeastern Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective chart review was performed for all patients who had undergone surgery and a pre-operative Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) test, between August 2008 and July 2009 at the Eye unit of the Presbyterian Joint Hospital, Ohaozara, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Data were analyzed for age, sex, type of surgery and HIV status. Frequency, percentage and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated with univariate analysis and the parametric method. RESULTS: A total of 380 cases were reviewed comprised of 228 males and 152 females (M:F= 1.5:1).The mean age of the cohort is 56 years (range, 4 years to 91 years). Fourteen patients (3.7%; 95% confidence interval 1.8 – 5.6) were HIV positive. CONCLUSION: A high HIV sero-prevalence was reported in our study. Infection-control precautionary measures are indicated to minimize risk of HIV transmission to ophthalmic surgeons and allied health-workers.
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spelling pubmed-32770312012-02-16 Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity among Eye Surgical Patients at a Rural Eye Care Facility in South-Eastern Nigeria Okoye, Obiekwe Magulike, Nwabueze Chuka-Okosa, Chimdi Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Original Article PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of human immunodeficiency infection among patients who underwent surgery at a rural eye care facility in southeastern Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective chart review was performed for all patients who had undergone surgery and a pre-operative Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) test, between August 2008 and July 2009 at the Eye unit of the Presbyterian Joint Hospital, Ohaozara, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Data were analyzed for age, sex, type of surgery and HIV status. Frequency, percentage and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated with univariate analysis and the parametric method. RESULTS: A total of 380 cases were reviewed comprised of 228 males and 152 females (M:F= 1.5:1).The mean age of the cohort is 56 years (range, 4 years to 91 years). Fourteen patients (3.7%; 95% confidence interval 1.8 – 5.6) were HIV positive. CONCLUSION: A high HIV sero-prevalence was reported in our study. Infection-control precautionary measures are indicated to minimize risk of HIV transmission to ophthalmic surgeons and allied health-workers. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3277031/ /pubmed/22346121 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.92122 Text en Copyright: © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Okoye, Obiekwe
Magulike, Nwabueze
Chuka-Okosa, Chimdi
Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity among Eye Surgical Patients at a Rural Eye Care Facility in South-Eastern Nigeria
title Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity among Eye Surgical Patients at a Rural Eye Care Facility in South-Eastern Nigeria
title_full Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity among Eye Surgical Patients at a Rural Eye Care Facility in South-Eastern Nigeria
title_fullStr Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity among Eye Surgical Patients at a Rural Eye Care Facility in South-Eastern Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity among Eye Surgical Patients at a Rural Eye Care Facility in South-Eastern Nigeria
title_short Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity among Eye Surgical Patients at a Rural Eye Care Facility in South-Eastern Nigeria
title_sort prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus seropositivity among eye surgical patients at a rural eye care facility in south-eastern nigeria
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22346121
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.92122
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