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| Title | Occlusive versus non occlusive retinal vasculitis: A retrospective comparative study among 409 eyes in a referral center in Tunisia North Africa |
| Purpose | To compare clinical features, etiologies visual outcomes and prognosis among patients diagnosed with occlusive versus non-occlusive retinal vasculitis (RV). |
| Methods | A monocentric retrospective comparative study. Among the 284 patients screened 123 patients were diagnosed with occlusive RV (ORV) and 161 patients were diagnosed with non-occlusive RV (NORV). |
| Results | Mean initial BCVA was 20/63 in the ORV group and 20/50 in the NORV group. common clinical findings were vitritis (92.6% vs 95.1) vascular sheathing (63% vs 32%) intraretinal hemorrhages (58% vs 8.6%) anterior chamber inflammation (44.4% vs 54.3) and retino-choroidal lesions (36.1% vs 35.7%). RV most commonly affected retinal veins in both groups. Most common etiologies were Behçet’s disease (32.5% vs 18.6%) tuberculosis (20.3% vs 5%) and sarcoidosis (3.3% vs 14.9%). Most common complications included macular edema (41.5% vs 38.4%) and posterior segment neovascularization (22.2% vs 4.04%). |
| Conclusion | In this series ORV and NORV have distinctive clinical characteristics etiological profile and outcome and prognosis. |
| Conflict of interest | No |
Authors 1
| Last name | BEN AMOR |
| Initials of first name(s) | H |
| Department | Department of Ophthalmology Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital |
| City | monastir |
| Country | Tunisia |
Authors 2
| Last name | hadj amor |
| Initials of first name(s) | W |
| Department | Department of Ophthalmology Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital |
| City | monastir |
| Country | Tunisia |
Authors 3
| Last name | karray |
| Initials of first name(s) | D |
| Department | Department of Ophthalmology Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital |
| City | monastir |
| Country | Tunisia |
Authors 4
| Last name | harzallah |
| Initials of first name(s) | W |
| Department | Department of Ophthalmology Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital |
| City | monastir |
| Country | Tunisia |
Authors 5
| Last name | khochtali |
| Initials of first name(s) | S |
| Department | Department of Ophthalmology Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital |
| City | monastir |
| Country | Tunisia |
Authors 6
| Last name | kairallah |
| Initials of first name(s) | M |
| Department | Department of Ophthalmology Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital |
| City | monastir |
| Country | Tunisia |
