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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 11.
Published in final edited form as: Amyloid. 2018 Jul 11;25(2):120–128. doi: 10.1080/13506129.2018.1479249

Table 2.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients submitted to vitrectomy

Hereditary ATTRV30M – ‘Tafamidis Group’ (n=8 patients; n=10 vitreous*) Hereditary ATTRV30M – ‘No Tafamidis Group’ (n=19 patients; n=23 vitreous#)
Patient Age (at vitrectomy) (mean ± s.d., max, min) 62.0 ± 8.7 years (max 72.1, min 47.2) 52.4 ± 9.1 years (max 72.4, min 39.4)
Gender Female: n=7, Male: n=1 Female: n=9
Male: n=10
Age of disease onset (mean ± s.d., max, min) 53.6 ± 10.8 years (max 64.9, min 35.1) 37.2 ± 14.1 years (max 69.0, min 21.4)
Disease duration (mean ± s.d., max, min) 8.5 ± 2.9 years (max 14.5, min 4.5) 17.4 ± 5.3 years (max 26.2, min 8.5)
ATTRV30M Specific Treatment Description Tafamidis 20mg per day orally Liver Transplant: n=16
No Treatment: n=3
Treatment duration (at vitrectomy) (mean ± s.d., max, min) 4.5 ± 2.3 years (max 8.0, min 1.7) 14.7 ± 5.2 years (max 21.9, min 4.3)
*

two patients (a woman and a man) underwent bilateral vitrectomy at different time points;

#

four patients (three men and one woman) underwent bilateral vitrectomy at different time points. For age, disease duration and treatment duration, each vitrectomy was considered separately (i.e., six patients were considered at two different time points). All remaining patients were considered at only one time point.

Three patients with no treatment because of the absence of peripheral nervous disease manifestations.