Frequency of ocular manifestations in multiple sclerosis patients admitted in tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia

A. Alharbi

Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia. alharbiabdulrehman@gmail.com

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• Neurology

OBJECTIVE: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the most destructive demyelinating diseases of the nervous system, and it manifests through broad involvement of the visual system. The present study was aimed to evaluate the frequency of ocular symptoms among MS patients admitted to the Kingdom Hospital in Saudi Arabia

PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study aiming at investigating the prevalence of eye disease among MS patients referred to Hawtat Sudair Hospital, Zulfi General Hospital, Majmaah General Hospital, and Kingdom Hospital in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) from January 2020 to December 2020. The sample size was made of 100 MS patients including 50 males and 50 females, all presented with eye disorders. The data were analyzed with SPSS 25, Chi-square test, and descriptive statistics.

RESULTS: The examined patients included 100 patients with MS symptoms aged 35 years, ranging from 20 to 70 years. The results showed a considerable lack of sharpness of vision among patients (80%), and the rate of double vision was reported to be about 49% among them which was the most prevalent vision problem from the onset of the disease until the examination time.

CONCLUSIONS: The achieved data from this study demonstrated that multiple sclerosis could cause eye diseases. Initial recognition of this syndrome provides the possibility of having an appropriate evaluation of patients to clinicians. Moreover, after the prevalence of MS, other ocular symptoms may occur consequently.

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