Assessment Outcome of Patient with Optic Edema

Abstract

Background:

Optic edema is a swelling of the optic nerve that connects the eye to the brain. This swelling is a reaction to the build-up of pressure in or around the brain, which may have many causes.

Objective:

This paper aims to assess the outcome of patients with optic edema.

Patients and methods:

This paper is interested to assess the outcome of patients with optic edema. This study was conducted on patients from 15 to 45 years for both sexes, male and female, in different hospitals in Iraq on 15th March 2021 to 17th August 2022. The collected data was analysed, and statistics by SPSS and Excel programs. This study was examined into patient groups with 85 members of patients.

Results and discussion:

Without mentioning the underlying etiology, the term "papilledema" merely refers to oedema of the optic disc. Because it is the most well-known and significant clinical symptom of increased intracranial pressure, papilledema must be recognized in clinical settings. Modern diagnostic techniques have evolved to the point that it is now common practice to identify and treat elevated intracranial pressure before papilledema manifests.

Conclusion:

In this paper, we have studied all the causes, symptoms, and evaluation of farsighted patients for ages from 15 to 45 years for both male and female sexes. Our results showed that males were more affected than females, with a rate of 69.4% and females 30.6%. Moreover, the data collected revealed that age-related macular degeneration and Idiopathic intracranial hypertension had the highest percentage of patients, finding 25 and 32 patients. In addition, these results showed that Headache and Lr palsy achieved a large proportion of affected patients.