Clinical and social portrait of patients with Keratoconus, living in the southern regions of Russia

• Published in: Oftalʼmokhirurgii͡a︡ = Ophthalmosurgery no. 1; pp. 62 - 66
• Main Authors: Podtynnyh, E.V., Izmailova, S.B., Komarovskikh, E.N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Publishing house "Ophthalmology" 10-04-2019
• Subjects: clinical and social portrait; keratoconus
• DOI: 10.25276/0235-4160-2019-1-62-66
• EISSN: 2312-4970
• ISSN: 0235-4160

For the southern regions of Russia, the problem of Keratoconus is of particular importance due to the high incidence of the disease.Purpose. To examine the clinical and social characteristics of patients with Keratoconus and get a portrait of the disease.Material and metods. Comprehensively surveyed 74 patients with Keratoconus at all stages (136 eyes). Depending on the stage of the process formed 4 clinical groups: I stage Keratoconus was 55 eyes (40.4%), stage II-36 eyes (26.5%), stage III-38 eyes (27.9%) and IV-7 eyes (5.2%). Applied traditional and modern ophthalmic techniques.Results. On the basis of the received data was compiled clinical social portrait of patient with Keratoconus. Patient with Keratoconus is a young man aged about 28 years, I Keratoconus stage, resident in the city, often by nationality Russian or Armenian, has working specialty, diagnosed with Keratoconus, installed this year, having a high enough risk of Keratoconus, with complaints of reduced Visual acuity, in having Visual acuity is about 0.4, correction to almost 0.6 with myopic correction with spherical myopic component of about 3.7D and cylindrical myopic component of about 3.2D. Eye size and level of true intraocular pressure while correspond to normal values, in contrast to the thickness of the central part of the cornea, which reliably thinner norms.Conclusion. Submitted by clinical and social portrait is a «slice», reflecting the most characteristic manifestation of Keratoconus in the southern regions of Russia according to the principle of «here and now».