Pozdeeva O.G., Dulyba O.R.
SCREENING STUDY OF PERIPHERAL RETINAL DEGENERATIONS AMONG STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF CHELYABINSK ^{[№ 12 ' 2015]}
Peripheral retinal degenerations (PRD) are a major cause of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in young, working persons, both in our country and abroad. The need for preventive measures to prevent complications is dictated by the severity of the disease and the difficulty of its diagnosis and treatment, which underlines the relevance of the study. It was conducted screening eye examination of 23 162 university students in Chelyabinsk. The average age was 21 years old. In 1 992 people (3 012 eyes) were revealed different clinical forms PRD. The most frequently encountered white frost degeneration, cystoid, lattice and "snail track". Less detected white without depressions and "cobblestones". Lattice degeneration and "snail track" almost equally often met all kinds of clinical refraction of the eye, including emmetropia. There was both unilateral and bilateral retinal damage. In patients with "cobblestones", white with no depressions, cystoid and white frost degenerations in 60–70 % of cases the disease occurred on the background of myopia of high to medium, and often pathological process was bilateral. Thus, by screening younger patients aged 16–25 years, the risk-shaped peripheral retinal degenerations occurred in 3.2 % of cases in all students and 36.5 % of students with PRD, including lattice degeneration 2.4 and 27.5 % and the "snail track" of 0.8 and 9.0 % respectively. The results determine the high importance of preventive medical examinations with obligatory study of the periphery of the fundus of the eye, regardless of the type of refractive error.