Purpose: The purpose of the study is to report the prognostic factors and outcomes of vitrectomy (PPV) with silicone oil tamponade in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) secondary to acute retinal necrosis (ARN).
Methods: This retrospective, non-randomized, interventional comparative study included 38 eyes of 38 patients. All cases underwent PPV with silicone oil tamponade. The main outcome measure was improvement of final visual acuity relative to the presenting visual acuity and factors affecting the same Group A included eyes with favorable vision of 20/400 or better and Group B included the others.
Results: Group A included 16 eyes (42.10%), group B included 22 eyes (57.89%). In Group A 2 eyes out of 16 (12.5%) and in Group B 12 eyes out of 22 (54.54%) had RRD at presentation (p = 0.02, 95% CI for the difference 7.88–65.78%). The time interval between first presentation and development of RRD in Group A was 30.94 ± 38.8 days (median 30 days) whereas that in Group B was 10.81 ± 11.73 days (median 8 days) (p = 0.02). The odds of visual improvement post-vitrectomy when RRD occurred later was 8.4 (p = 0.01, 95% CI 1.53–46.1). The usage of systemic steroids (odds 5.2, p = 0.03, 95% CI 1.14–23.54) and oral valacyclovir (odds 4.33, p = 0.04, 95% CI 1.05–17.84) were associated with odds favoring a good visual outcome. Recurrent RRD was noted in 3/16 eyes (18.75%) in Group A and 13/22 eyes (59.09%) in Group B (p = 0.03).
Conclusion: Delayed occurrence of RRD after ARN is a good prognostic factor. Usage of systemic steroids and oral valacylocvir are associated with a favorable visual outcome when started before the onset of RRD. 相似文献
AIMS: Recently, markers of inflammation, haemostasis, and blood rheology have received much attention as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke. However, their role in peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is not well established and some of them, including the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6), have not been examined before in prospective epidemiological studies. METHODS AND RESULTS: In the Edinburgh Artery Study, we studied the development of PAD in the general population and evaluated 17 potential blood markers as predictors of incident PAD. At baseline (1987), 1519 men and women free of PAD aged 55-74 were recruited. After 17 years, 208 subjects had developed symptomatic PAD. In analysis adjusted for cardiovascular risk factors and baseline cardiovascular disease (CVD), only C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, lipoprotein (a), and haematocrit [hazard ratio (95% CI) corresponding to an increase equal to the inter-tertile range 1.30 (1.08, 1.56), 1.16 (1.05, 1.17), 1.22 (1.04, 1.44), 1.22 (1.08, 1.38)] were significantly (P < 0.01) associated with PAD. However, these markers provided very little prognostic information for incident PAD to that obtained by cardiovascular risk factors and the ankle brachial index. Other markers including IL-6, intracellular adhesion molecule 1, d-dimer, tissue plasminogen activator antigen, and plasma and blood viscosities showed weak associations, which were considerably attenuated when CVD risk factors were accounted for. CONCLUSIONS: Our prospective data showed that several inflammatory, haemostatic, and rheological markers are associated with incident PAD; however, their clinical utility is likely to be limited. Future research is necessary to validate the importance of these biomarkers explicitly on PAD and to address the causality of the reported associations. 相似文献
Diabetic patients have a higher rate of mortality from sepsis than do their nondiabetic septic counterparts. The hypothesis
in this study is that chronic diabetes may make cardiovascular systems more sensitive to septicemia. To test this hypothesis,
the authors investigated the effect of diabetes on endotoxin-induced cardiac toxicity. Diabetes was induced in FVB mice by
injecting a single dose (150 mg/kg) of streptozotocin. Two months after streptozotocin treatment, the diabetic mice were treated
with lipopolysaccharide by intraperitoneal injection at 2 mg/kg. Cardiac toxicity was evaluated by measuring levels of serum
cardiac enzymes and cardiac morphology at 1 h, 4.5 h, and 24 h after lipopolysaccharide treatment. Serum and cardiac tumor
necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay methods at 1 h and 4.5
h after lipopolysaccharide treatment. Lipopolysaccharide treatment did not significantly affect the diabetic manifestations,
including decreased body weight gain and increased glycated hemoglobin and serum triglyceride levels. However, diabetes significantly
enhanced lipopolysaccharide-induced cardiac toxicity, which was demonstrated by significant increases in the levels of cardiac
enzymes such as creatine phosphokinase and troponin T, abnormal morphological changes examined under light microscope with
hematoxylin and eosin staining, and oxidative damage to proteins detected by 3-nitrotyrosine staining. Lipopolysaccharide
treatment significantly increased serum and cardiac TNF-α and IL-6 concentrations. Diabetes did not alter the effect of lipopolysaccharide
on serum and cardiac TNF-α elevation, but it significantly enhanced lipopolysaccharide-induced cardiac IL-6 production. These
results suggest that diabetes significantly enhances endotoxin-induced cardiac toxicity, possibly through mechanisms that
involve inflammatory/acute-phase cytokines. 相似文献