A study of ocular complications in leprosy.
A total of 380 leprosy patients were studied in four different leprosy hospitals. The involvement of eye was found in 18.95% of cases in which 10.97% in lepromatous leprosy and 8.16% in non-lepromatous leprosy cases. In total cases studied 52.63% were of lepromatous leprosy and 47.37% of non lepromatous leprosy cases. Among them 11.05% were males and 18.95% were females. In 72 cases of ocular involvement, males constituted 80.56% and females 19.44% of cases. Maximum cases (52.78%) of ocular involvement were in leprosy patient with 5 to 10 years of duration. Blindness among the total leprosy patients studied was 1.84% which was mainly due to corneal opacity following exposure keratitis and ulceration, iridocyclitis and its complications.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001766:Blindness / Q000453:epidemiology; D003229:Conjunctival Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005138:Eyebrows; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007918:Leprosy / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014603:Uveal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology