The Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS)-1: A Multinational Review of 165 Patients with Tubercular Anterior Uveitis

Rupesh Agrawal, Bjorn Betzler, Ilaria Testi, Sarakshi Mahajan, Aniruddha Agarwal, Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran, Dhananjay Raje, Kanika Aggarwal, Somasheila I. Murthy, Mark Westcott, Soon Phaik Chee, Peter Mccluskey, Su Ling Ho, Stephen Teoh, Luca Cimino, Jyotirmay Biswas, Shishir Narain, Manisha Agarwal, Padmamalini Mahendradas, Moncef KhairallahNicholas Jones, Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun, Kalpana Babu, Soumayava Basu, Ester Carreño, Richard Lee, Hassan Al-Dhibi, Bahram Bodaghi, Alessandro Invernizzi, Debra A. Goldstein, Carl P. Herbort, Talin Barisani-Asenbauer, Julio J. González-López, Sofia Androudi, Reema Bansal, Bruttendu Moharana, Simona Esposti, Anastasia Tasiopoulou, Sengal Nadarajah, Mamta Agarwal, Sharanya Abraham, Ruchi Vala, Ramandeep Singh, Aman Sharma, Kusum Sharma, Manfred Zierhut, Onn Min Kon, Emmett T. Cunningham, John H. Kempen, Quan Dong Nguyen, Carlos Pavesio, Vishali Gupta

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Abstract

Purpose: The Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS) Group sought to address the diagnostic uncertainty through retrospective cohort analysis of treatment regimens and therapeutic outcomes for patients with tubercular Anterior Uveitis (TAU) across international centers. Methods: Multicentre retrospective analysis of patients diagnosed with TAU between January 2004 to December 2014 that had a minimum follow-up of 1 year. Results: One hundred and sixty-five patients were included. One hundred and seven subjects received antitubercular therapy (ATT) (n = 107/165; 64.9%) with all the patients receiving topical steroid therapy. Treatment failure was noted in 17 patients (n = 17/165; 10.3%), more frequently described in patients that received ATT (n = 13/107, 12.2%), than those that did not receive ATT (n = 4/58, 6.9%). Conclusion: In this retrospective study, addition of ATT did not have any statistically significant impact on outcome in patients with TAU.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalOcular Immunology and Inflammation
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Anti-tubercular therapy
  • collaborative ocular tuberculosis study (COTS)
  • ocular tuberculosis
  • tubercular anterior uveitis
  • uveitis

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