Abstract

STUDY DESIGN-HOSPITAL BASED CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY .PURPOSE-TO EVALUATE THE MOST COMMON PRESENTATIONS ENCOUNTERED AS A SEQUAELAE OF DACRYOCYSTITIS AND THE MICROBIOLOGICAL FLORA CAUSING IT.METHOD- 25 PATIENTS AGE GROUPS 11 TO 65 YEARS OF EITHER SEX ATTENDING OUR OPD WERE EXAMINED FOR VARIOUS PRESENTING SYMPTOMS AFTER THOROUGH OCULAR EXAMINATION . CONJUNCTIVAL SWABS WERE SENT FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION-66.66% FEMALE PREDOMINANCE BELONGING TO LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS WAS NOTED. MICROBOLOGICAL ANALYSIS SHOWED 76% GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI ,24% GRAM-NEGATIVE BACILLI , 8% FUNGI . MOST PREVALENT ORGANISM WAS STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE .LACRIMAL ABCESS IS MOST COMMON COMPLICATION ENCOUNTERED FOLLOWED BY ORBITAL CELLULITIS.THE MICROBIOLOGICAL SPECTRUM WAS MOSTLY COMPOSED OF BACTERIA. MOST OF THE PATIENTS HAD LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, ARRIVED AT THE TERTIARY CENTER LATE, AND RECEIVED NONSPECIFIC LOCAL CARE.