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Ocular morbidity among earthquake survivors in a community based hospital in Nepal
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“...ocular finding documented in this study was eyelid lacerations with or without surrounding structure
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followed by conjunctival inflammations. There were 17 cases of episcleral inflammations also which maybe due to allergy to dust and dander released from collapsed houses as allergy has been associated with occurrence of episcleritis in other studies also.18 There were three cases of lateral rectus palsy with patients presenting with esotropia and diplopia which can be explained by the fact that most of the injuries were due to collapsed houses and involved associated head and neck injuries. Another general ocular trauma study done previously in our Hospital also revealed ocular contusion injury with lid oedema, ecchymosis and sub-conjunctival hemorrhage as the most frequent finding.13 But in contrast to our finding, in a study done in Rawalpindi Hospital after the Pakistan
Earthquake
of 2005, orbital fractures and cranial nerve palsies were the most common findings encountered.12 P...”