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Top-seven of the XXIth Annual Meeting of the Glaucoma Society of India
Mumbai, India, October 7-9, 2011
Devindra Sood
- A survey done in a North-Indian rural population showed that only 8% had optimal knowledge about glaucoma. The level of education and glaucoma in the family improved the positive response. (Parveen Rewri, Chennai, India)
- Despite reaching an apparently adequate target pressure and stable looking fields, 48% of the patients were at risk of lifetime visual disability using age appropriate actuarial tables to predict life expectancy. The risk was 1.5 times higher amongst juvenile glaucoma patients than POAG patients. (Parveen Rewri, Chennai, India)
- A cross-sectional study amongst glaucoma patients using BAK-containing medications showed that 50% patients with POAG on medications had signs of OSD (Ocular Surface Disease) in at least one eye. (Rita Dhamankar, Mumbai, India)
- Diagnostic abilities of optic nerve head (ONH), retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and ganglion cell complex (GCC) parameters significantly decreased when evaluated against clinically relevant, suspicious looking optic nerves compared to those with no suspicious findings of glaucoma. (Harsha Rao, Hyderabad)
- Screening GAT (Goldmann Applanation Tonometers) at 0 mmHg cannot replace a formal calibration error check. (Sirisha Senthil, Hyderabad)
- In a population bases study, incidence of Ocular hypertension over six years was 2.53%. Higher baseline IOP and increasing age were risk factors. (Ronnie George, Chennai)
- Knowledge, attitudes, and self care practices associated with glaucoma among non-ophthalmic hospital personnel showed that 80.76% physicians and 65.26% nurses understood that glaucoma was associated with a high pressure and had affected the optic nerve. However, 24% of physicians and nurses did not know that it was important for family members of glaucoma patients to get an eye checkup done. Out of total blindness, stroke or paralysis, cancer, schizophrenia and heart disease, blindness prevention was first priority for 34.6% physicians and 15.78% nurses. (Parul Ichhpujani, Chandigarh).