Maculopathies a Lome : Aspects epidemiologiques et diagnostiques.

Abstract

Aim: To determine the frequency of the various maculopathies among patients having undergone a retinal fluorescein angiography (FA).Patients and Methods: It acts of a retrospective study based on the analysis of the registers of the resultsof retinal FA carried out from August 1995 to July 2001 in the service of ophthalmology of the CHU Tokoin. All the cases where the indication of FA was macular syndrome or search for maculopathy were analysed.Results: Two hundred and fifty eight (258) patients whom 160 men and 98 women were retained. The age of the patients varied from 7 to 82 years with an average of 43.1 ± 16.9 years. Ninety and five(35.6%) patients had pathological medical histories including 60 cases of diabetes (23.25%), and 25 cases of arterial hypertension (9.5%). The maculopathies most represented are age-related maculardegeneration (15.7%), antimalarials drug-induced maculopathies (14.7%), the macular oedemas (12.4%), central serous retinopathy (10.9 %) and the macular holes (5.4 %).Conclusion: This study enabled us to determine the frequency of the principal maculopathies in Lomé. Other studies will approach the aetiology and the correlation between the personal antecedents of thepatients and these maculopathies