[Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with eye tuberculosis]

The study has analyzed 514 new cases of eye tuberculosis registered in the dispensaries of 23 regions. Eye tuberculosis more frequently affects young and middle-aged women, urban citizens, persons who have adequate living and domestic conditions, moderate income, who are clerks or skilled workers, who have no bad habits, who suffer one or two concurrent diseases, who have no opportunity of receiving adequate treatment in a hospital or sanatorium due to familial or professional circumstances and more commonly those whose posterior eyeball is involved (chorioretinitis). Of great concern is eye tuberculosis detected in 87.4% of referrals, which determines the high proportion of advanced and far-advanced cases.