CATARATA METABÓLICA Y CALIDAD DE VIDA DEL PACIENTE INTERVENIDO QUIRÚRGICAMENTE EN LA FUNDACIÓN DR. OSWALDO LOOR MOREIRA. ENERO-JUNIO 2012.

Abstract

The metabolic waterfall, is the biggest cause of blindness or of severe limitation of the visual capacities in people of 20 to 65 years in the country, according to the World Organization of the Health (OMS). Of there the importance of knowing something more envelope their causes, factors of risk, problems systemic associates and, mainly to give to know like it impacts since in the quality of people's life that you/they suffer it, with the course of the time a decrease of the visual sharpness that worsens takes place and it causes problems of mobility, what hinders the acting of the daily activities. The present study was of descriptive type carried out in the Foundation Dr. Oswald Praise Moreira of the city of Portoviejo, during the period January to June of the 2012, where clinical data of the patients were picked up with diagnosis of metabolic waterfall, being obtained a sample of 60 patients that you/they completed the inclusion approaches for the study. The main results, showed that this pathology is given more in 50 year-old grown-ups and it is located to the arterial hypertension as indirect one of the causing one, borne with the lack of physical activity, what causes behavior changes of active, depressive to bad humorous preferably that goes related with its labor activity and family relationship, since according to the results of the surveys most lives with its family, espouse/a and children. The sintomatologies of this pathology in the patients showed different behaviors from the vision of shades, blurred, you stain, lights and double vision, and the most utilized surgical treatments were extracapsular and facoemulsificación, where most of the patients presented an improvement in its vision and for end superior quality of life.