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| Title | Retinal complications among uveitis patients - a population-based study |
| Accept poster if oral is not possible ? | Yes |
| Purpose | To evaluate the incidence and risk factors for developing retinal complications in uveitis patients in Taiwan |
| Methods | A million registered beneficiaries were randomly selected from the National Health Insurance Research Database. All new uveitis patients between 2002 and 2011 were identified. Retinal complications were identified based on ICD-9 codes. Clinical and demographic factors were analyzed to explore the risk factors for incidence of these retinal complications. |
| Results | There were totally 10,936 uveitis patients identified. Of these, 81.2% were anterior uveitis, 0.2% ntermediate uveitis, 5.9% posterior uveitis, and 12.8% pan-uveitis. 2.4% of them have been diagnosed as retinal hole, pucker, or retinal detachment after the diagnosis of uveitis.
Multivariate analysis showed that patients with older age, posterior and pan-uveitis were significant risk factors for developing these complications. Among these patients, 23% have received vitrectomy. Patients with pan-uveitis have the higher chance for receiveing surgery of these complications. We also found a significantly increasing trend in the proportion of patients who received vitrectomy within 1 year after the diagnosis of complications. |
| Conclusion | Although retinal complications rarely happened in the first few years after uveitis occurred, a quarter of them may need surgical treatment. Clinicians should follow up retina and macular carefully in elder patients and those whose uveitis mainly involve posterior segment of eye. |
| Conflict of interest | No |
Author 1
| Last name | HWANG |
| Initials of first name(s) | DK |
| Department | Taipei Veterans General Hospital |
| City | Taipei |
| Country | Taiwan |
