International Journal of Retina
Vol 1 No 2 (2018): International Journal of Retina (IJRetina) - INAVRS

Profile of Patients with Floaters in Saiful Anwar Hospital Malang

Hidayah, Fenti Kusumawardhani (Unknown)
Dewi, Nadia Artha (Unknown)
Refa, Safaruddin (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Aug 2018

Abstract

Introduction: To report the profile of patients with floaters as a subjective complain in Saiful Anwar Hospital from July 2012 until June 2013. Methods: an observasional descriptive study was conducted, collecting data on gender, age, subjective complain (floaters, flashes and subjective vision reduction), best corrected visual acuity and diagnose from patient’s medical record. Result: 169 patients (215 eyes) were included in this study. Female patients contributed a higher percentage than male with mean of age was 49 years old. The subjective complain was floaters (67%), floater with blurred vision (22%), floater with flashes (6%) and patients with floaters, flashes, and blurred vision was 5%. Myopia was the most common refraction problem. Diagnose recorded from this study were posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) (34%), no abnormalities (13%), PDR (10%), RRD (9%), peripheral retinal degeneration (14%) retinal break (6%), corpus vitreous degeneration (3%), vitreous haemorhage (3%), posterior uveitis (2%) and others (6%). Conclusion: The most common cause of floaters is PVD. Even it is usually a save condition but there are some condition with floater as a subjective complain which is threatening vision, so accurate eye examination from anterior to posterior segment were needed.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijretina

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Subject

Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology Health Professions Immunology & microbiology Medicine & Pharmacology Public Health

Description

International Journal of Retina is an open access journal, accepting article in English language from all over the worlds. The aims is to provide international researchers in the field of basic and clinical research in ophthalmology, especially retina to publish the original ...