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. 2021 Apr 30;69(5):1052–1060. doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2232_20

Table 4.

Treatment strategies, HIV status and outcomes of Leishmanial uveitis

Reference n HIV Vision at first presentation (logMAR) Treatment Visual outcome Outcome (logMAR)

1st presentation 2nd presentation 3rd presentation
Fox-Lewis et al.[48] 1 -ve NA B - - Bilateral blindness
Van Os et al.[49] 1 +ve OD: 0.3 OS: 0.2 A A, D D, H OD: 0.7 OS: 0.22
Perrin-Terrin et al.[38] 1 +ve OD: counting fingers OS: 0.3 A, D A, B, D, F - OD: phthisis OS: 0
Ramos et al.[50] 1 +ve OS: field defect OD: full vision F - - Complete resolution
Meenken et al.[39] 1 +ve Light perception A, F, J - - OD: finger counting OS: Enucleation
Salvanos et al.[35] 1 NA OD: 0 OS: 0.2 A, C A, C, E OD: 0.52 OS: light perception
Gontijo et al.[52] 1 -ve NA A, D A, F - OD: hand movements OS: 0.22
Reinecke et al.[41] 1 -ve NA A NA - Bilateral enucleation
Ferrari et al.[51] 1 -ve 1 bilaterally A, B, C, E, F 1 bilaterally
Uveitis associated with HAART Induced Immune Reconstitution syndrome (IRIS)
Blanche et al.[46] 1 +ve NA A E - OD: enucleation OS: full resolution
Davies et al.[59] 1 +ve Full vision bilaterally A - - Resolution
Couture et al.[40] 1 +ve Counting fingers bilaterally A, C, G - - OD: counting fingers OS: 0.18

Reference n HIV Vision at first presentation (logMAR) Treatment Visual outcome Outcome (logMAR)

1st presentation 2nd presentation 3rd presentation

Uveitis following systemic antileishmanial tderapy
 Dechant et al.[37] 3 NA OD: counting fingers OS: hand movements A, C A, C, F - OD: 1 OS: 1.78
OD: 1 OS: 0.78 A, C - - Resolution
NA F A - Resolution
 Bouomrani et al.[44] 1 -ve 0.3 bilaterally A - - 0.1 bilaterally
 Khalil et al.[43] 5 NA NA Nil - - Bilateral blindness
Nil - - Bilateral blindness
A, F - - Full resolution
A, F - - Full resolution
A, F - - Full resolution
 El-Hassan et al.[36] 2 NA Counting fingers A, F - - Full resolution
Counting fingers A, F - - Lost to follow-up
 El-Hassan et al.[42] 2 NA 1.08 bilaterally A, F - - OD: 0 OS: 0.18
1.08 bilaterally A, F - - Full resolution
 Sinha et al.[45] 1 -ve Full vision bilaterally A A A Full resolution bilaterally

n=number of patients; A=topical steroids; B=intra-ocular/sub-conjunctival steroids; C=systemic steroids; D=intra-ocular Amphotericin B; E=systemic amphotericin B; F=systemic antimonial; G=systemic miltefosine; H=pentamidine; J=systemic fluconazole; NA=not available