Alteraciones oftalmológicas de la lepra en EspañaII. Participación de úvea y esclera
- Martínez-Costa, R.
- Carrió, J.
- Gómez, R.
- Satorre, J
- Martínez-Costa, L.
- Terencio, J.
ISSN: 0365-6691
Year of publication: 1990
Volume: 59
Issue: 2
Pages: 185-192
Type: Article
More publications in: Archivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmologia
Abstract
We examine 37 patients diagnosed of leprosy, studying their uveal, crystallinian and scleral damages. 31 of them were lepromatosic forms, 2 lepromatosic borderline, 2 tuberculoid borderline and 2 tuberculoid. In 6 cases we haven't found damages of any kind. In the rest of the cases, we observe a decrease of the visual sharpness directly related to the duration of the illness. The indolent chronic uveitis, were the most important cause of blindness, typical signs of this uveitis were the peripupillary iris atrophy, the keratic precipitate the posterior synechiae and the miosis. A surprisingly high number of patients presented ptisis bulbi oni or bilateral byatrophy of the eilliar body. The seleral damages were represented by scleritis, episcleritis in the sharp cases. The ectasia and scleral thinness appeared as se- quels of the above mentioned in less number of patients. We haven't found funduscopic damages.