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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2015 Jan 27;253(6):901–907. doi: 10.1007/s00417-015-2940-3

Table 4.

Patients’ preoperative topical and systemic therapy for ocular and systemic GVHD.

Local treatments for ocular GVHD No. of cases (%)
Topical lubricants 62 (100)
Punctal occlusion 42 (67.7)
Topical anakinra 27 (43.5)
Topical autologous serum 23 (37)
Antibiotic ointment 20 (32)
Topical cyclosporine 17 (27)
Topical corticosteroids 9 (14.5)
Scleral lens 9 (14.5)
Mucolytic (10% N-acetylcysteine) therapy 5 (8)

Systemic treatments for ocular and concurrent systemic GVHD

Corticosteroids 47 (76)
Mycophenolate mofetil 29 (47)
Doxycycline 21 (34)
Sirolimus 21 (34)
Tacrolimus 18 (29)