DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2021.v07i01.004

Pages: 12-14

Cataract is the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness worldwide, accounting for more than 50% of the blindness cases. The major barriers to cataract surgery include cost, lack of knowledge about cataract, lack of transport and/or felt need. Outcomes of cataract surgery are generally good and improvement in vision after cataract surgery is a rule in most case. Investigate the prevalence and vision-related outcomes of cataract surgery in a private medical college hospital. 51 patients were subjected to a cross sectional study by systematic random sampling with the participants of study being patients with cataract coming to the ophthalmology OPD. The prevalence of cataract among the patients attending ophthalmology OPD is 19.87%. In Table I: shows distribution of the study patients according to age group of the clinical presentation of Prevalence of cataract where most of the cases 26(50.98%) were >69 years. In Figure-I shows distribution of the study patients according to Literacy and sex of the clinical presentation of Prevalence of cataract where most of the cases 27(52.94%) were Illiterates and 30(58.13) were Female. In Table II: shows distribution of the study patients according to age locality of the clinical presentation of Prevalence of cataract where most of the cases 37(72.55%) were Rural. In Figure III shows distribution of the study patients according to diabetes in patients with cataract of the clinical presentation of Prevalence of cataract where most of the cases 5(9.8%) had diabetes in patients. The following tables and figures are given below in detail. The age based study shows that the prevalence of cataract increases with age. It is clear from the study that the visual acuity improves greatly with the cataract surgery. The most common post-operative complications being astigmatism and posterior capsular opacification.