Table 1.
Baseline Characteristic |
Eligible SCUT Participants |
Ineligible SCUT Participants,N= 420 |
PValue* |
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Included,N= 50 |
Excluded,N= 30 |
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Female sex, N (%) | 25 (50%) | 10 (33.3%) | 192 (45.7%) | 0.33 |
Age, y, median (IQR) | 45 (38–60) | 56 (37–65) | 53 (40–62) | 0.14 |
LogMAR visual acuity, median (IQR) | 0.65 (0.36–1.6) | 1.36 (0.64–1.7) | 0.81 (0.36–1.7) | 0.16† |
Infiltrate size, mm2, median (IQR) | 2.5 (1.9–3.7) | 3.2 (1.9–5.1) | 2.7 (1.9–4.0) | 0.32 |
Steroid group, N (%) | 24 (48.0%) | 15 (50.0%) | 211 (50.2%) | 0.98 |
Causative organism, N (%) | ||||
S. pneumoniae | 21 (42.0%) | 15 (51.7%) | 214 (51.0%) | 0.50 |
Nocardia species | 14 (28.0%) | 4 (13.3%) | 38 (9.1%) | 0.001‡ |
P. aeruginosa | 12 (24.0%) | 7 (23.3%) | 92 (21.9%) | 0.88 |
Other | 3 (6.0%) | 4 (13.3%) | 77 (18.3%) | 0.07§ |
Kruskal-Wallis test or Fisher's exact test.
Pairwise comparisons: eligible included versus eligible excluded, P = 0.06; eligible included versus ineligible, P = 0.81.
Pairwise comparisons: eligible included versus eligible excluded, P = 0.17; eligible included versus ineligible, P < 0.001.
Pairwise comparisons: eligible included versus eligible excluded, P = 0.23; eligible included versus ineligible, P < 0.02.