Table 4.
Patients’ preoperative topical and systemic therapy for ocular and systemic GVHD.
Local treatments for ocular GVHD | No. of cases (%) |
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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) |
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Systemic treatments for ocular and concurrent systemic GVHD | |
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Corticosteroids | 47 (76) |
Mycophenolate mofetil | 29 (47) |
Doxycycline | 21 (34) |
Sirolimus | 21 (34) |
Tacrolimus | 18 (29) |