Volume 27, Issue 131, January 2023

Prevalence of glaucoma in Al Kharj: A retrospective record-based study

Ali Hassan A Ali^1,2♦, Hisham Hassan Algaaide³, Essa Hazza Alonazi⁴, Iftikhar Lafi N Alanazi⁵, Rajwa Hussin S Alenezi⁵, Raghad Faisal Alruwaili⁵, Raghad Muteb Alruwaili⁵, Dhai Nasser S Almuatiri⁵, Shmoukh Mushref Alrawili⁵, Mohammed Abdullah Alqarni⁶

¹Anatomy Department, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, KSA
²Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
³Ophthalmology Department, King Khalid Hospital, Ministry of Health, Al-Kharj, KSA
⁴College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, KSA
⁵College of Medicine, Northern Border University, Arar, KSA
⁶College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA

^♦Corresponding author
Anatomy Department, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, KSA and Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

ABSTRACT

Globally, glaucoma is the most common cause of irreversible blindness and is a complex illness. It doesn't cause symptoms until they're severe, so there may be more affected people than have been recognized. It frequently has to do with an increase in pressure inside the eye. If glaucoma is left untreated, it will continue to harm the optic nerve. Reporting the clinical statistics of glaucoma cases in Al Kharj city is the goal of our study. This retrospective study was carried out at King Khalid and PSA (Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz) University Hospitals in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. All glaucoma patients who attended these hospitals between January 2022 and November 2022 had their medical records carefully examined. Patient demographic information, clinical information and information on their surgical and medical management methods were gathered and reported. There were 350 patients in all; 54% of them were men, 94.8% were Saudi citizens and the average age was 53. 82.2% of cases involved bilateral involvement. The most common kind of glaucoma was primary open-angle, which was followed by secondary glaucomas. Primary open-angle glaucoma, secondary glaucomas and primary angleclosure glaucoma were the most common glaucomas in the study population. In order to allocate resources, plan services and prevent blindness, it is essential to be aware of the prevalence of glaucoma.

Keywords: Glaucoma, Prevalence, Primary open-angle glaucoma, Blindness, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e21ms2741

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i131/e21ms2741

Published: 07 January 2023