A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ON OCULAR MANIFESTATIONS OF ANEMIA

Purpose Of Study: Anemia is a common hematological disorder presenting with a variety of ocular manifestations. Purpose of this study is to determine the distribution of ocular features affected by anemia and grade it into mild, moderate and severe anemia. This is a cross sectional study done on 85 patients. Informed Materials And Methods : consent was obtained from all the patients. Patients with history of Hypertension, Diabetes mellitus, history of ocular trauma and any other systemic disorder leading to retinopathy were excluded from the study. In the p Results: resent study, conjunctival pallor was the commonest ocular manifestation of anemia seen in 66 out of 85 cases (77%). Retinal hemorrhages were the second commonest ocular manifestation seen in 16 out of 85 cases (18%). Posterior pole pallor was seen as the third commonest ocular manifestation seen in 10 patients out of 85 cases (11%). : E Conclusion arly diagnosis of anemic retinopathy helps in the early treatment of anemia and thus resolution of retinal hemorrhage.