Cataract Surgery in Patients With Uveitis Treated With Systemic Therapy in the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial and Follow-up Study: Risk Factors and Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the rate of, risk factors for, and outcomes of cataract surgery in patients with intermediate, posterior, and panuveitides treated with systemic corticosteroids and immunosuppression.

Design

Cohort study of participants from a randomized clinical trial.

Methods

A multicenter clinical trial with extended follow-up comprised the study setting. From the cohort of participants assigned to systemic therapy in the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial and Follow-up Study, 125 phakic eyes of 74 patients with intermediate, posterior, or panuveitides treated with systemic therapy were included. The main outcome measures were cataract surgery and visual acuity after cataract surgery.

Results

The cumulative incidence of cataract surgery wa

SUBMITTER: Jabs DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10528707 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature