Research Article
Ocular Changes in Chronic Kidney Disease
Rosu George Mathew, Georgi Abraham and Hannah Ranjee Prasanth
Correspondence Address :
Rosu George Mathew MD
Department of Ophthalmology
Pondicherry Institute of
Medical Sciences
Pondicherry
India
Email: rosugm111@yahoo.com
Received on: , Accepted on: , Published on:
Citation: Rosu George Mathew, Georgi Abraham, Hannah Ranjee Prasanth (2016). Ocular Changes in Chronic Kidney Disease
Copyright: 2016 Rosu George Mathew, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
A prospective study was carried out in 200 patients with various stages of CKD on both conservative therapy and in dialysis cohort. The study included 149 Males and 51 Females. The mean age of the patients was 54.7 +/- 12.1 years. Most of the patients were of stage 5 CKD [n=105, 52.5%] and 87 patients were on haemodialysis and 4 were on peritoneal dialysis, while 109 were on conservative therapy. Most common ocular abnormality was cataract [n=128, 64%] out of which 32 patients [16%] patients had undergone cataract surgery. Hypertensive and diabetic retinopathy were the findings in 39% and 28.5% respectively. Intra ocular pressure was normal in the most of the eyes [n=195, 97.5%]. A community based examination involving both nephrologists and ophthalmologists should be carried out to know the true prevalence of ocular changes in CKD patients.
Keywords: CKD, Ocular changes