Biologics in ocular inflammatory diseases - Experience from a tertiary referral eye care center in South India

To analyze the utility of biologics in noninfectious uveitis and other ocular inflammatory diseases in a South Indian patient population. This was a retrospective observational study conducted at the uveitis and ocular inflammatory diseases clinic of a tertiary eye care hospital in South India betwe...

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Veröffentlicht in:Indian journal of ophthalmology 2024-09
Hauptverfasser: Babu, Kalpana, Padmapriya, P G, Rao, Anand P, Jois, Ramesh
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:To analyze the utility of biologics in noninfectious uveitis and other ocular inflammatory diseases in a South Indian patient population. This was a retrospective observational study conducted at the uveitis and ocular inflammatory diseases clinic of a tertiary eye care hospital in South India between 2016 and 2023. Records of 76 patients on biologics were retrieved from our databases. The mean age was 34.84 ± 17.383 years. In 75% of patients, the duration of follow-up was 52.75 months. Overall, anterior nongranulomatous uveitis was the most common anatomic type of uveitis (34.21%). HLA B27-associated uveitis was the most common etiology (34.21%) in whom biologics were used. Patients
ISSN:0301-4738
1998-3689
1998-3689
DOI:10.4103/IJO.IJO_1126_24