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  • hypotony in patients with uveitis the multicenter uveitis Steroid Treatment must trial
    Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, 2012
    Co-Authors: Lea T Drye, Debra A Goldstein, Theresa A Larson, Pauline T Merrill, Peter R Pavan, John D Sheppard, Alyce Burke, Sunil K Srivastava, Douglas A Jabs
    Abstract:

    Purpose: To assess the prevalence of hypotony in patients with severe forms of uveitis.Methods: The Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial, a randomized study, enrolled 255 patients. Patients with hypotony at the baseline visit were identified.Results: Twenty (8.3%) of 240 patients with sufficient data had hypotony. Hypotony was more common in patients with uveitis ≥5 years duration (odds ratio [OR] = 5.0; p 51 years vs. <51 years, OR = 0.1; p = .02), in Caucasian patients (OR = 0.1; p < .01) compared to African American patients. Hypotonous eyes were more likely to have visual impairment (OR = 22.9; p < .01).Conclusions: Hypotony is an important complication of uveitis and more commonly affects African-American patients, those with uveitis onset at a younger age, and those with longer disease duration. It is associated with visual impai...

Katherine H Petersson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

E Ferekidis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • intratympanic Steroid Treatment in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss a control study
    Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2006
    Co-Authors: J Xenellis, Nikolaos Papadimitriou, Thomas Nikolopoulos, Paulos Maragoudakis, John V Segas, Antonios Tzagaroulakis, E Ferekidis
    Abstract:

    BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Although systemic Steroids in sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) appears to be the most effective and the most widely accepted Treatment today, a significant number of patients do not respond to Steroid Treatment or they cannot receive Steroids for medical reasons. Intratympanic (IT) administration of Steroids appears to be an alternative or additional method of management without the side effects of intravenous Steroids. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness and safeness of IT administration of Steroids in patients who had not responded to IV Treatment and to compare Treatment efficacy with controls.STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Our study consisted of 37 patients with SSHL who, at the end of 10 days of therapy with intravenous Steroids as a 1st line Treatment, had pure-tone 4-frequency (0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz) average (PTA) of worse than 30 dB or worse than 10 dB from the contralateral ear (defined as failed intravenous Treatment). They were randomized into 2...

Grazyna B Sadowska - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.