Retinal detachment in East Africa
β Scribed by D.avid B Yorston; Mark L Wood; Clare Gilbert
- Book ID
- 117328040
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 106 KB
- Volume
- 109
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0161-6420
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In order to characterize the preoperative findings in different cases of retinal detachment (RD) a non-selected series of 538 patients from a population of about 560.000 inhabitants in Sweden during a ten-years period was studied, Since the probability is very high that all cases of RD were included
Relative hypotony in the affected eye was present in 40% of patients with uncomplicated unilateral retinal detachments. The average pressure asymmetry was only 1.3 mm Hg, but in one out of every four patients the difference was 3 mm Hg or more. In a control group, such a difference occured in only o