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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: Retina. 2023 Aug 1;43(8):1377–1385. doi: 10.1097/IAE.0000000000003815

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical data of patients with idiopathic multifocal choroiditis and chrysanthemum lesions.

Characteristics Number

No. of patients 20
No. of eyes 25
Age (mean years ± SD) 35.8 ± 17.0
Follow-up duration (mean months, range) 15 (3 – 96)
Gender n (%)
 Male 8/20 (4.0%)
 Female 12/20 (60.0%)
Refractive error n (%)
 Myopic 24/25 (96.0%)
 Emmetropic 1/25 (4.0%)
 SE (mean diopters, range) −5.50 (−12.0 to 0)
BCVA (mean Snellen equivalent)
 Initial 20/33
 Final 20/26
Presenting symptom, n (%)
 Vision loss 15/20 (75.0%)
 Scotoma 5/20 (25.0%)
 Photopsia 1/20 (5.0%)
Treatments n (%)
 Oral corticosteroid 18/20 (90.0%)
 Periocular corticosteroid 2/20 (10.0%)
 Immunosuppressive therapy 2/20 (10.0%)

Abbreviations: BCVA: best-corrected visual acuity; SE: spherical equivalent