Clinical characteristics of intermediate uveitis in Chinese patients.
Клучни зборови
Апстракт
OBJECTIVE
To describe the clinical characteristics of Chinese patients with intermediate uveitis (IU).
METHODS
Retrospective review of patients with IU with at least 6 months follow-up.
RESULTS
Seventy patients were identified and the mean follow-up was 59.7 months. The mean age at presentation was 33.1 years. Fifteen (21.4%) patients had disease onset before the age of 18 years; 91.4% of IU cases were considered idiopathic after investigations. At the last follow-up, 85 (74.6%) eyes retained vision of at least 20/40. Poor visual outcome was significantly associated with poor presenting visual acuity (p = .002), presence of epiretinal membrane or atrophic macular changes (p = .003), persistent cystoid macular edema (p = .015), and increased disease duration (odds ratio = 1.015 per month, p = .002). Pediatric patients were more likely to have bilateral (p = .003) and chronic disease (p < .001).
CONCLUSIONS
IU in Chinese patients was mainly idiopathic, with good visual outcomes in most patients after appropriate treatment.
