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Common Causes of Eye Enucleation among Patients
BACKGROUND: We investigated the contributing causes and factors leading to eye enucleation procedure among the patients referred to the ophthalmology clinic of the Center Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical records of patients referred to the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5523519/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781478 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.210006 |
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author | Farokhfar, A. Ahmadzadeh-Amiri, A. Sheikhrezaee, M. R. Gorji, Mohammad Ali Heidari Agaei, N. |
author_facet | Farokhfar, A. Ahmadzadeh-Amiri, A. Sheikhrezaee, M. R. Gorji, Mohammad Ali Heidari Agaei, N. |
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description | BACKGROUND: We investigated the contributing causes and factors leading to eye enucleation procedure among the patients referred to the ophthalmology clinic of the Center Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical records of patients referred to the ophthalmology clinic of the Center Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran, in the past 3 years. The data retrieved were analyzed. RESULTS: A total of 313 patients underwent eye enucleation during the past 3 years. The average age of the patients was 36.7 years (range: 20–44 years). Two hundred and eight patients (66.5%) were males and 105 (33.5%) were females. One hundred and sixty-nine patients had the right eye enucleation while 144 patients had the left eye enucleation. The various procedures included enucleation (83%), evisceration (13.4%), and exantration (3.6%). The factors leading to these procedures included trauma (33.2%), phthisis bulbi (20.7%), tumors (15.7%), and infections (10.5%). CONCLUSION: In our study population, trauma was the main factor leading to eye enucleation. Hence, measures to increase social awareness and knowledge to reduce trauma cases are necessary as a preventive approach to reduce eye enucleation procedures. Concurrently, ophthalmologists should also pay more attention in early diagnoses and screening of eye health, especially detecting tumor cases such as retinoblastoma and postsurgical care to reduce secondary infections will be effective actions to reduce the overall rate of enucleation. |
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spelling | pubmed-55235192017-08-04 Common Causes of Eye Enucleation among Patients Farokhfar, A. Ahmadzadeh-Amiri, A. Sheikhrezaee, M. R. Gorji, Mohammad Ali Heidari Agaei, N. J Nat Sci Biol Med Original Article BACKGROUND: We investigated the contributing causes and factors leading to eye enucleation procedure among the patients referred to the ophthalmology clinic of the Center Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical records of patients referred to the ophthalmology clinic of the Center Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran, in the past 3 years. The data retrieved were analyzed. RESULTS: A total of 313 patients underwent eye enucleation during the past 3 years. The average age of the patients was 36.7 years (range: 20–44 years). Two hundred and eight patients (66.5%) were males and 105 (33.5%) were females. One hundred and sixty-nine patients had the right eye enucleation while 144 patients had the left eye enucleation. The various procedures included enucleation (83%), evisceration (13.4%), and exantration (3.6%). The factors leading to these procedures included trauma (33.2%), phthisis bulbi (20.7%), tumors (15.7%), and infections (10.5%). CONCLUSION: In our study population, trauma was the main factor leading to eye enucleation. Hence, measures to increase social awareness and knowledge to reduce trauma cases are necessary as a preventive approach to reduce eye enucleation procedures. Concurrently, ophthalmologists should also pay more attention in early diagnoses and screening of eye health, especially detecting tumor cases such as retinoblastoma and postsurgical care to reduce secondary infections will be effective actions to reduce the overall rate of enucleation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5523519/ /pubmed/28781478 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.210006 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Farokhfar, A. Ahmadzadeh-Amiri, A. Sheikhrezaee, M. R. Gorji, Mohammad Ali Heidari Agaei, N. Common Causes of Eye Enucleation among Patients |
title | Common Causes of Eye Enucleation among Patients |
title_full | Common Causes of Eye Enucleation among Patients |
title_fullStr | Common Causes of Eye Enucleation among Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Common Causes of Eye Enucleation among Patients |
title_short | Common Causes of Eye Enucleation among Patients |
title_sort | common causes of eye enucleation among patients |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5523519/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781478 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.210006 |
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