“PREVALENCIA DE PATOLOGÍAS OFTALMOLÓGICAS CONGÉNITAS EN NIÑOS QUE ACUDEN A LA CONSULTA EXTERNA DEL HOSPITAL ROBERTO GILBERT, DURANTE EL PERIODO MAYO – OCTUBRE 2016”

Abstract

Ocular anomalies in general constitute a health problem related to disability. At present, national statistics show a steady increase in congenital anomalies due to the enormous population variability that exists in the country, but there is no exact information related to congenital ophthalmological pathologies. We sought to obtain the prevalence of congenital ophthalmological pathologies through the collection of data from the outpatient clinic of the Roberto Gilbert Hospital, with the general objective of obtaining the prevalence of these pathologies, in addition to identifying the most common congenital pathologies, the most frequent complications and the time in which the diagnosis of these was made; early or late. The results obtained were 118 patients, of which 27 patients had congenital ophthalmologic pathologies, that is, 22.88% of the population studied presented this condition. Congenital cataract and congenital glaucoma are the most common congenital pathologies, with a late diagnosis range in most of the congenital ophthalmological pathologies found, with a high number of absence of complications followed by buftalmos, myopia and glaucoma secondary to surgery between the complications encountered. As a conclusion, a guide for the early detection of major congenital ophthalmological pathologies is available to the medical community and society in general.