Macouzet-Romero FJ, Ochoa-Maynez GA, Pérez-Aragón BJ, Lima-Gómez V

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ABSTRACT

Introduction. Symptoms that patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment present in our media is unknown.
Objective. To find the distribution of symptoms at diagnosis of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, compare it between genders and find out whether any symptom was more frequent in patients without visual loss.
Material and methods.Non-experimental, retrospective, cross-sectional analytical study in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment who attended an ophthalmic institution from January 2018 to May 2019. We registered for each eye: age, gender, duration of symptoms, best corrected visual acuity and the following symptoms: visual loss, scotomas, photopsia, floaters, erithropsia and metamorphopsia. We identified the frequency of symptoms and compared it between genders; we compared the frequency of symptoms other than visual loss, in patients with and without it.
Results. 300 eyes, mean age 54.24 ± 15.85 years, 139 from women (46.3 %). 262 eyes had visual loss (87.3 %), 79 scotomas (26.3 %), 48 photopsia (16.0 %), 54 fl oaters (18.0 %), 8 erithropsia (2.7 %) and 14 metamorphopsia (4.7 %). Among symptoms other than visual loss scotomas was the most common in men; photopsia were more common in women than in men, and in eyes without visual loss.
Conclusion. Prompt detection of retinal detachment requires knowing and seeking its symptoms (scotomas in men, photopsia in women) before visual acuity decreases.

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