| The Statistical Observation of Ocular Injury in the Military. |
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Kwan Hoon Lee, Won Hyuk Lee, Jae Hoon Jeong, Young Min Park |
1Department of Ophthalmology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea.
2Department of Ophthalmology, Armed Forces Cpital Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
3Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Pusan National University & Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea. Loveis293@naver.com |
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Department of Ophthalmology, Dankook University College of Medicine1, Cheonan, Korea Department of Ophthalmology, Armed Forces Cpital Hospital2, Seongnam, Korea Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Pusan National University & Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital3, Busan, Korea |
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| Abstract |
PURPOSE
We investigated the clinical characteristics of ocular trauma in the military for prevention and treatment application. METHODS: We retrospectively surveyed epidemiologic characteristics by investigating the medical records of 790 patients who were hospitalized in the Armed Forces Capital Hospital from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2010 and investigated the prognostic factors that influenced visual outcome. RESULTS: Among the 790 patients with ocular trauma, 22.9% of the patients had an open injury and 77.1% had a closed injury. The most common cause of injury was sports-related ocular trauma (39%) and fatigue duty-related trauma (23.4%). The following 8 risk factors were considered poor prognostic factors: open injury, involved posterior segment, operation, initial visual acuity of 0.1 or less, corneal laceration, hyphema, RD, and intraocular foreign body. There was a significant correlation between the probability of poor visual outcome and the number of risk factors (correlation coefficient = -0.468, p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: In the present study, the cause, characteristics and prognostic factor of military personnel's ocular injury were determined. The results can be useful in the prevention and management of ocular injury in the military. |
| Key Words:
Military unit;Ocular injury;Visual acuity |
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