Research Article
Prognostic Factors for Postoperative Visual Acuity in Patients with Rhinogenic Optic Neuropathy
Table 2
Comparison of the ratio of visual prognostic factors in the visual acuity improvement group and the nonimprovement group by surgery.
| | Visual acuity improvement N = 9 | Visual acuity nonimprovement N = 6 | value |
| Age | 59.8 ± 15.9 | 79.8 ± 7.3 | 0.01 |
| Sex | Male | 4 | 4 | 0.61 | Female | 5 | 2 | |
| Duration from visual deficit to surgery (days) | 5.7 ± 2.7 | 12 ± 7.1 | 0.05 |
| Steroid pulse | + | 8 | 3 | 0.24 | − | 1 | 3 | |
| Preoperative visual acuity (logMAR) | 1.25 ± 1.06 | 1.47 ± 1.06 | 0.71 |
| Type of optic neuropathy | Mucocele | 4 | 1 | 0.58 | Pyocele | 1 | 2 | 0.52 | Sinusitis | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Sinus lesion | Sphenoid | 5 | 3 | 1 | Ethmoid | 5 | 4 | 1 |
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MAR: minimum angle of resolution, , Student’s t-test, Fisher exact test. |