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. 2021 May 12;8:661891. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.661891

Table 4.

Comparison between corticosteroid with or without additional etanercept treatment on Sotozono's acute and chronic stage grading score.

Corticosteroid + Corticosteroid p-value
etanercept only
Number (patient/eye) 31/62 82/164
Gender (M/F) 15/16 32/50 0.126
Age (years old) 48.00 ± 18.72 45.79 ± 24.06 0.601
Mean follow up time (days) 485.00 ± 502.42 360.82 ± 319.64 0.319
Time to intervention (days) 1.96 ± 1.49 0.78 ± 0.64 0.003
Major causative drugs
Anti-epileptics 24 (38.71%) 48 (29.27%) 0.264
Antibiotics 11 (17.74%) 26 (15.58%)
Allopurinol 6 (9.68%) 10 (6.10%)
NSAID 6 (9.68%) 26 (15.58%)
Sulfa drugs 2 (3.23%) 18 (10.98%)
Others 13 (20.97%) 36 (21.95%)
Sotozono's grading score
Acute stage
  Mean 1.323 1.488 0.171
  Std. deviation 0.763 0.903
  Std. Error Mean 0.097 0.071
Chronic stage
  Mean 1.645 3.951 <0.001
  Std. deviation 2.470 5.765
  Std. error mean 0.314 0.450