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A Daboue

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PubMed2005

[Cataract in Burkina Faso: factors of choice between modern and traditional surgical procedures].

Despite advances in cataract surgery, many peoples in the Sub-Saharan region are still treated by the traditional lens couching technique. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors leading to the choice of lens couching for cataract treatment. A total 34 patients (40 eyes) from the northern Burkina Faso who underwent lens couching were examined and interviewed. Most patients (56%) did not understand the etiology of cataracts and attributed the disease to fate. Nor did they know of any other cataract treatment than lens couching. Only 13 patients (38.2%) would recommend modern cataract treatment and 52% suggested that health workers should come out into the villages and operate as traditional healers do. In spite of its potentially dramatic complications, lens couching is still the only method of cataract treatment known in some communities of Burkina Faso. Public information campaigns are needed to put an end to the ancestral practice of lens couching.

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PubMed2002

[Eye tension and open angle glaucoma in a Burkina Faso hospital].

PURPOSE: Studying the correlation between high intraocular pressure and glaucoma in black African patients. PATIENTS: and method: This study was retrospective and was based on 235 patients, i.e. 470 eyes examined from April 1993 to december 1998 for elevated eye pressure, at the Sanou Souro hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. For each subject, we noted visual acuity, age, sex, ocular tonus, the result of optical disc examination with the three-mirror glass, and the visual field examined with Goldmann perimetry. We excluded infants, young children, glaucoma with normal pressure, and patients with incomplete files. RESULTS: The patients were from 14 to 80 years old, with 18.3% 40 years-old or less. Male subjects predominated with a sex ratio of 2.26. Visual acuity was lost in 191 eyes (40.6%) and optic disk excavation was total in 214 eyes (45.5%). The Goldmann perimetry visual field test revealed defects in 390 eyes (83%). Ocular tension, optic disk excavation of the glaucomatous type, and visual field defects were associated in 70.4% of the cases. CONCLUSION: This study shows that in 70.4% of the cases, there was a correlation between high intraocular pressure and glaucoma. This glaucoma is acute and appears in young subjects. Efforts will be made to alert our population and detect glaucoma precociously.

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