Table 3 A comparison of treatment outcomes of infectious scleritis reported in other studies
From: Early surgical debridement in the management of infectious scleritis after pterygium excision
Study | Number of patients | At least one debridement | Repeat debridement | Postoperative BCVA (%) | Mean hospital stay (days) | Postoperative complications (%) | Enucleations or eviscerations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reynolds and Alfonso [4] | 28 | 39% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 32% |
Lin et al. [6] | 30 | 87% | 62% | N/A | 32.5 | N/A | 3.3% |
Hsiao et al. [7] | 18 | 33% | N/A | NLP (22) | N/A | Recurrence (22) | 22% |
LP (5.5) | Complicated cataract (28) | ||||||
HM (5.5) | Serous retinal detachment (22) | ||||||
CF (5.5) | |||||||
20/400 (5.5) | Choroidal detachment (17) | ||||||
20/200 (28) | |||||||
20/100 (11) | Choroidal and retinal detachment simultaneously (11) | ||||||
20/50 (11) | |||||||
20/30 (5.5) | |||||||
Huang et al. [10] | 3 | 100% | 0% | 20/200 (67) | N/A | Posterior synechiae (67) | 0% |
20/120 (33) | Cataract (67) | ||||||
Cystoid macular edema (67) | |||||||
Huang et al. [8] | 16 | 44% | 13% | NLP (19) | N/A | Vitreous opacity (50) | 19% |
LP (19) | Glaucoma (25) | ||||||
HM (6) | Serous retinal or choroidal detachments (25) | ||||||
0.02 (6) | |||||||
0.1 (13) | |||||||
0.2 (6) | Cataract (13) | ||||||
0.3 (6) | Recurrence (13) | ||||||
0.5 (6) | |||||||
0.6 (6) | |||||||
N/A (13) |