Naomi R Goldberg1, Theodore Lyu1, Erin Moshier2, James Godbold2, Douglas A Jabs3. 1. Department of Ophthalmology, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. 2. Department of Biostatistics, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Institute for Translational Epidemiology, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. 3. Department of Ophthalmology, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Department of Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Institute for Translational Epidemiology, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Center for Clinical Trials, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: douglas.jabs@mssm.edu.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the success of single-agent immunosuppression for patients with the posterior uveitides, birdshot chorioretinitis, multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis, and punctate inner choroiditis. DESIGN: Retrospective case series. METHODS: setting: Tertiary care uveitis practices. population: Patients initiated on immunomodulatory therapy. intervention: Patients were treated with prednisone 1 mg/kg and mycophenolate 2 g daily. Prednisone was tapered after 1 month. Immunosuppression was escalated to mycophenolate 3 g daily, with addition of a second agent, as needed, to achieve treatment success. outcome measure: Treatment success, defined as no disease activity with prednisone dose ≤10 mg daily, at 6, 12, and 24 months. RESULTS: Twenty-seven patients were followed. Mean presentation and 2-year follow-up acuities were 20/41 and 20/42, respectively. For birdshot chorioretinitis, mean (±standard deviation) quantitative Goldmann visual field scores improved from 761 ± 69 degrees (IV/4 isopter) and 496 ± 115 degrees (I/4 isopter) at presentation to 784 ± 57 degrees and 564 ± 125 degrees, respectively. Prednisone was successfully tapered in 95% of patients; mean prednisone doses at 1 and 2 years were 5.3 ± 4.1 and 5.7 ± 4.8 mg/day, respectively. At 2 years, prednisone was discontinued in 11% of patients. Treatment success was achieved in 74% of patients on 1 immunosuppressant, and in an additional 21% of patients on 2 agents, for an overall 95% success rate at 2 years. CONCLUSIONS: Posterior uveitides can be treated with 1 agent in most patients, but the data suggest a need to escalate therapy to higher mycophenolate doses, and in one fifth of cases to add a second agent to maintain disease suppression with acceptably low prednisone doses.
PURPOSE: To evaluate the success of single-agent immunosuppression for patients with the posterior uveitides, birdshot chorioretinitis, multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis, and punctate inner choroiditis. DESIGN: Retrospective case series. METHODS: setting: Tertiary care uveitis practices. population: Patients initiated on immunomodulatory therapy. intervention: Patients were treated with prednisone 1 mg/kg and mycophenolate 2 g daily. Prednisone was tapered after 1 month. Immunosuppression was escalated to mycophenolate 3 g daily, with addition of a second agent, as needed, to achieve treatment success. outcome measure: Treatment success, defined as no disease activity with prednisone dose ≤10 mg daily, at 6, 12, and 24 months. RESULTS: Twenty-seven patients were followed. Mean presentation and 2-year follow-up acuities were 20/41 and 20/42, respectively. For birdshot chorioretinitis, mean (±standard deviation) quantitative Goldmann visual field scores improved from 761 ± 69 degrees (IV/4 isopter) and 496 ± 115 degrees (I/4 isopter) at presentation to 784 ± 57 degrees and 564 ± 125 degrees, respectively. Prednisone was successfully tapered in 95% of patients; mean prednisone doses at 1 and 2 years were 5.3 ± 4.1 and 5.7 ± 4.8 mg/day, respectively. At 2 years, prednisone was discontinued in 11% of patients. Treatment success was achieved in 74% of patients on 1 immunosuppressant, and in an additional 21% of patients on 2 agents, for an overall 95% success rate at 2 years. CONCLUSIONS:Posterior uveitides can be treated with 1 agent in most patients, but the data suggest a need to escalate therapy to higher mycophenolate doses, and in one fifth of cases to add a second agent to maintain disease suppression with acceptably low prednisone doses.
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