Longitudinal Assessment of Transorbital Sonography, Visual Acuity, and Biomarkers for Inflammation and Axonal Injury in Optic Neuritis

Table 1

Characteristics of patients and controls.

	Optic neuritis	Healthy controls	value
Number of patients, n (%)	23 (100)	19 (100)
Sex
Females, n (%)	19 (83)	13 (68)	0.47
Males, n (%)	4 (17)	6 (32)
Time from onset days	14 (8–26)	—
Follow-up days	360	—
Age, years (mean ± SD)	33.0 ± 8.0	34.3 ± 9.2	0.63
Isolated optic neuritis, n (%)	12 (52.2)
MS-optic neuritis, n (%)	11 (47.8)

Data were expressed in frequency (percentage) or means ± standard deviation. Fisher’s exact test. t-test for independent groups.