Traumatic uveitis in the mid-Atlantic United States

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Table 1 Patient demographics and characteristics

Demographic/characteristic	Traumatic uveitis patients (n=54)
Sex, n (%)
Male	38 (70.4)
Female	16 (29.6)
Race/ethnicity, n (%)
Caucasian	31 (57.4)
African American	20 (37.0)
Hispanic	1 (1.9)
Other	2 (3.7)
Mean age (years) at diagnosis of uveitis (± SD)	31.2 (17.0)
Mean age (years) at presentation (± SD)	30.2 (17.9)
Mean duration of follow-up time (years) (± SD)	5.40 (9.1)
Mean number of ophthalmology clinic visits (± SD)	4 (4.5)
Uveitis laterality, n (%)
Bilateral	1 (1.9)
Unilateral	53 (98.1)

Table 2 Ophthalmic treatment and interventions

Treatments and interventions	Number (%)
Local steroids	42 (77.8)
Systemic steroids	2 (3.7)
Subtenon steroid injection	1 (1.9)
Glaucoma topical treatment	8 (14.8)
Cataract surgery	5 (9.3)
Pars plana vitrectomy	2 (3.7)

Figure 1 Initial to final change in visual acuity (logMAR) for traumatic and nontraumatic uveitis patients.

Note: Each circle indicates one eye.

Table 3 Summary statistics for initial and final logMAR and initial to final change in logMAR for patients with both initial and final logMAR measurements

Variable	Group	Number of eyes	Mean	SD	Median	25th percentile	75th percentile
Initial logMAR	Nontrauma	546	0.50	0.71	0.18	0.10	0.60
Final logMAR	Nontrauma	546	0.52	0.84	0.18	0.00	0.48
Delta	Nontrauma	546	0.01	0.74	0.00	−0.20	0.10
Initial logMAR	Trauma	48	0.33	0.42	0.10	0.00	0.49
Final logMAR	Trauma	48	0.16	0.33	0.00	0.00	0.18
Delta	Trauma	48	−0.17	0.33	−0.05	−0.42	0.00

Figure 2 Initial to final change in IOP (mmHg) for traumatic and nontraumatic uveitis patients.

Abbreviation: IOP, intraocular pressure.

Table 4 Summary statistics for initial and final logMAR and initial to final change in logMAR for patients with both initial and final logMAR measurements

Variable	Group	Number of eyes	Mean	SD	Median	25th percentile	75th percentile
Initial IOP	Nontrauma	531	16.0	6.8	15.0	12.0	18.0
Final IOP	Nontrauma	531	14.9	5.5	14.0	12.0	18.0
Delta	Nontrauma	531	−1.07	8.1	0.0	−4.0	3.0
Initial IOP	Trauma	41	15.5	7.4	14.0	11.0	18.0
Final IOP	Trauma	41	14.6	4.0	15.0	12.0	17.0
Delta	Trauma	41	−0.88	7.1	0.0	−3.0	3.0

Abbreviation: IOP, intraocular pressure.

Table 5 Clinical outcomes of patients prescribed steroids and those not prescribed steroids

Clinical outcome	Steroids	No steroids
Initial BCVA (logMAR) (± SD)	0.44 (0.58)	0.29 (0.23)
Final BCVA (logMAR) (± SD)	0.24 (0.44)	0.07 (0.09)
Initial IOP (mmHg) (± SD)	15.0 (6.51)	14.71 (6.65)
Final IOP (mmHg) (± SD)	14.6 (3.57)	14.86 (5.76)

Abbreviations: BCVA, best-corrected visual acuity; IOP, intraocular pressure.