A Comparative Study of Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Proved and Suggested Sarcoid Uveitis Occurring after Ophthalmic Procedure

Table 3

Comparison of postprocedure patients with control patients: demographic characteristics and ophthalmic, laboratory, and radiologic features.

	Patients withocular surgery ()	Controls ()	value
Median age at diagnosis (years)	69.7	52.7	0.004
Females	11	32	0.05
Ethnicity Cau/Afr/North-Afr/As	10/1/0/0	35/1/7/1	0.33
Ophthalmologic findings
Unilateral/bilateral/unknown	5/6/0	11/32/1	0.42
Granulomatous	9	20	0.07
Synechiae	1	20	0.05
Elevated intraocular pressure	1	2	0.26
Retinal vasculitis	2	5	0.50
Macular edema	8	18	0.16
Papilledema	2	6	0.51
Multifocal choroiditis	3	14	0.999
Other ophthalmic features at diagnosis	3	5	0.33
Other systemic features at diagnosis	2	11	1
Other systemic features during course	0	6	0.22
Chest imaging
X-ray staging I/II/III/IV (scadding)	7/1/3/0	23/17/3/1	0.08
Serum markers
Elevated ACE	7	18	0.65
Elevated lysozyme	6	22	0.999
Treatment and outcome
Topical steroids	8	35	0.27
Systemic steroids	6	25	0.27
Immunosuppressants	1	12	0.12
Evolution to remission	5	13	0.76

Cau = Caucasian, Afr = African, North-Afr = North African, As = Asian, and ACE = angiotensin-converting enzyme.