DR. VIVEK SINGH

DR. RAKHI KUSUMESH, DR.DR. PARUL SHARMA

Abstract

we aimed to determine demographic features and underlying causes of LSCD in Bihar. This was a tertiary hospital based single centre Prospective case series done during April 2019 to March 2020. Medical records of all the patients with a diagnosis of LSCD were recorded and analyzed. In order to make the sample representative of the whole population, no preference was given to age, gender, ethnicity or religion. A total of 183 eyes of 122 patients with LSCD were included in our study, age ranging from 5 – 85 years (35.0 ± 19.4 years). Most common presenting complains were decrease in vision118 (96.7%) followed by photophobia 77 (63.1%) then redness 68 (55.7%), tearing 64 (52.5%) and blepharospasm 16 (13.1%).Out of 122 patients, 35 (28.7%) patients were of chemical injury, 31 (25.4%) patients were of SJS/TEN followed by 15 (12.3 %) patients of VKC. LSCD cases require different approach of management depending upon underlying causes, laterality and severity of disease.