[Eye injuries in childhood]. / Traumatismos oculares en edad pediátrica.
An Esp Pediatr
; 48(6): 625-30, 1998 Jun.
Article
em Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9662848
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The purpose of this study was to analyze the epidemiological, damage and preventative aspects of the pediatric ocular injuries treated during the last five years in our hospital. PATIENTS ANDMETHODS:
We have revised all clinical histories of ocular injuries in the Emergency Services of the Asturias Central Hospital from January 1992 to December 1996. Two hundred fifty-seven cases were reviewed and the following parameters were studied age, sex, kind of injury, causes and places where they originated, hospitalization or no, and functional sequeale.RESULTS:
Eighty percent of the cases were male (206 patients). Most, 85.6% (220 cases) did not require hospital attention, while hospitalization was necessary in 14.4% (37 cases). Concerning the latter, 73% (27 cases) were in the hospital less than 7 days, while the other 27% (10 cases) were hospitalized from 8 to 14 days. As for the cause of and the location where the injuries took place, our results were as follows school-home 33%, playtime-leisure 32%, sports accidents 12%, assaults 10%, traffic accidents 3% and unknown causes 10%. Minor injuries tend to imply the full restitution of sight (a large percentage were revised by their own ophthalmologist). Serious injuries caused the following functional losses loss of eyeball in 2 cases (traffic accident), monolateral blindness in 2 cases serious amblyopia in 10 cases, and moderate amblyopia in 6 cases.CONCLUSIONS:
Males suffer injuries 4 times more frequently than females and these are very infrequent before the age of 3 years. Traffic accident injuries are rare in comparison to in adulthood. Important immediate visual sequale were seen in 7.8% of the cases, although these may also appear later in cases that at first present good function during the acute phase.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Traumatismos Oculares
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
An Esp Pediatr
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article