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Table 4 Prognostic factors associated with good visual outcomes

From: Endogenous endophthalmitis: a 9-year retrospective study at a tertiary referral hospital in Malaysia

Prognostic factor (referent)

Crude odds ratio (95% CI)

p valuea

Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)

p valueb

Gender (male)

ā€ƒFemale

2 (0.92, 4.37)

0.079

Ā Ā 

Age (0ā€“50Ā years)

ā€ƒ>ā€‰50Ā years

0.85 (0.39, 1.86)

0.679

Ā Ā 

Medical illness (yes)

ā€ƒNo

1.60 (0.55, 4.63)

0.383

Ā Ā 

DM (yes)

ā€ƒNo

2.12 (0.93, 4.85)

0.071

Ā Ā 

Presenting VA (ā‰„ā€‰CF)

ā€ƒ<ā€‰CF

0.10 (0.04, 0.25)

0.000

0.09 (0.021, 0.384)

0.001

Fundus view (yes)

ā€ƒNo

0.15 (0.06, 0.38)

0.000

0.337 (0.068, 1.675)

0.184

Source of infection (yes)

ā€ƒNo

2.61 (0.93, 7.37)

0.062

Ā Ā 

Culture (positive)

ā€ƒNegative

1.29 (0.54, 3.07)

0.566

Ā Ā 

Organism (gram+)

ā€ƒGramāˆ’

0.965 (0.275ā€“3.386)

0.956

Ā Ā 

ā€ƒFungal

0.185 (0.019, 1.848)

0.151

Ā Ā 

Intravitreal antibiotic (yes)

ā€ƒNo

2.85 (0.62, 13.2)

0.234

Ā Ā 

Vitrectomy (yes)

ā€ƒNo

1.13 (0.53ā€“2.41)

0.751

Ā Ā 

Early vitrectomy (ā‰¤ā€‰2Ā weeks)

ā€ƒ>ā€‰2Ā weeks

1.69 (0.59ā€“4.82)

0.327

Ā Ā 
  1. The clinical summary of patients were summarized in TableĀ 5
  2. aUnivariate logistic regression
  3. bOnly factors associated with good visual outcome in multivariate logistic regression model