Venkata Bhavani Mallampalli1, Venkata Satyanarayana Bokka2
PURPOSE
The purpose of the present study is to describe the relationship between refractive errors, axial ocular dimensions, anterior chamber depth and corneal curvature, specifically to determine whether the refractive associations of these biometric variables are mutually related.
METHODS
We have conducted a prospective case study in patients attending the Outpatient Department of Ophthalmology, in Government General Hospital, Kakinada, during the period of October 2012 to December 2014. The study was done in 250 patients in order to evaluate refractive errors are determined by axial length of the eyeball.
RESULTS
It was observed that maximum number of myopics 18.8% are in 10-19 years’ age group followed by 12.8% in 20-29 years’ age group. However, hypermetropia is seen at little higher age, maximum of 16.4% in the age group of 20-29 years. It is also observed that hypermetropia make up the maximum number i.e. 45.2% followed by myopia 34.4%.
CONCLUSION
We came to conclusion that most of the refractive errors are determined by axial length of the eye ball.
