[Uveitis: epidemiological aspects at the Hospital Laquintinie de Douala].
OBJECTIVE
This retrospective study was carried out to determine the epidemiological characteristics of uveitis in our country.


METHODS
38 patients, of 5,420 consulted, presented with uveitis (0.7%). 13 of them were female and 25 were male. Their ages ranged from 10 to 17 years (mean 33.9 years).


RESULTS
The uveitis was unilateral in 81.6% of the cases, and the anterior form was found in 51.1% of the cases. An etiology was identified or suspected for 24 patients (63.1%), the most frequent being sinusitis (45.8%) and toxoplasmosis (29.2%). The treatment was generally effective (status improved in 72.2%), although 2 patients (3 eyes) lost their vision.


CONCLUSIONS
In spite of the low frequency of this disease, ophthalmologists are concerned about uveitis because of the difficulty of its etiological diagnosis and its ineluctable evolution, sometimes to blindness.
Bella-Hiag
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Université de Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroun. bella-hiag@camnet.cm
Mvogo
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Ellong
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D002163:Cameroon / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014605:Uveitis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014792:Visual Acuity