Abstract
Purpose. To describe clinical features and to analyze visual outcome of ocular trauma in Cangzhou in 2012–2015, China. Methods. A retrospective study of ocular trauma cases admitted to Cangzhou Central Hospital from January 2012 till December 2015 was performed. Results. This study included a total of 507 eyes from 478 patients. Four hundred (83.7%) patients were male, with a male-to-female ratio of 5.1 : 1. Mean age was 43.6 ± 18.3 years (5–95 years). The largest age group was 45–59 years old, followed by 30–44 years old, presenting two peaks of the age distribution and accounting for 28.5% and 27.2%, respectively. The most frequent type of injuries was work-related (194, 40.6%) followed by home-related (123, 25.7%). Initial visual acuity (VA) correlated with final VA (Spearman's test, r = 0.703, p = 0.001). The Ocular Trauma Score also correlated with the final VA significantly (Spearman's test, r = 0.802, p = 0.001). Conclusions. Susceptible population of eye injuries were middle- and young-aged working groups, and the proportion of males was higher. The leading two types of ocular trauma were work-related and home-related. Initial VA was a significant predictor of the final VA and the OTS possibly had predictive value in the final VA.
Highlights
Ocular trauma is one of the main causes of severe ocular morbidity [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
The epidemiology of ocular trauma has been well described in developed countries such as the United States, the UK, Australia, Japan, and Europe [8, 10,11,12,13], which is very useful in defining the impact of ocular trauma
Most of the eye injuries were found in middle-aged groups (45–59 years) followed by young-aged groups (30–44 years) which is coincident with other studies [2, 22]
Summary
Ocular trauma is one of the main causes of severe ocular morbidity [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. More than 55 million eye injuries occur per year, while there are approximately 1.6 million people with blindness from ocular trauma, 2.3 million people who are bilaterally visually impaired, and 19 million people with unilateral blindness or visual loss [9]. Because of the severity of visual impairment of ocular trauma, complete ocular trauma statistics and authoritative data should be collected. The epidemiology of ocular trauma has been well described in developed countries such as the United States, the UK, Australia, Japan, and Europe [8, 10,11,12,13], which is very useful in defining the impact of ocular trauma. The incidence of ocular trauma may be higher in developing countries
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