title: Visual prognosis and risk factors for korean patients with behcet uveitis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Visual prognosis was evaluated in Korean Behcet uveitis patients. The study investigated factors associated with poor visual outcome, and the effect of various treatments on recurrence-free duration.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective analysis was undertaken on 99 consecutive Behcet uveitis patients (168 eyes). Visual prognosis was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier survival curves, and Cox's proportional hazard regression analysis was used to identify risk factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Visual acuity at the first visit (<0.5), presence of vasculitis, male gender, and posterior/panuveitis type were associated with poor visual prognosis. Visual acuity at the first visit was found to be the most significant risk factor (hazard ratio = 7.392, p = 0.007). Analysis of 9 different treatment modalities showed patients treated with steroids had longer recurrence-free periods than those not treated with steroids (p = 0.0053, t test).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Whilethe long-term visual prognosis for Behcet uveitis may be affected by many factors, the initial visual acuity appears to be the most significant. Treatments involving steroids appear to decrease the frequency of uveitis recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Siloam Eye Hospital , Institute of Vision Research, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Young Jae
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Wook Kyum
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jong Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Suk Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Byeon
authors.forename: Hyoung Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.forename: Oh Woong
authors.initials: OW
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: Sung Chul
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D007723:Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D014605:Uveitis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D005938:Glucocorticoids