Abstract
PURPOSE: To determine the incidence and risk factors for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in a population of patients with newly diagnosed cytomegalovirus retinitis. METHODS: Analysis of selected baseline and time- dependent data on patients enrolled in a multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial of therapy with foscarnet vs ganciclovir. RESULTS: In 316 eyes with cytomegalovirus retinitis at baseline, the risk of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in an eye involved by cytomegalovirus retinitis was 18.9% at 6 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 14.0% to 23.8%) and 37.9% at 1 year (95% CI, 30.5% to 45.3%). Retinal detachment was not associated with the type of anticytomegalovirus therapy (intravenous foscarnet or ganciclovir) to which the patient was assigned. Extent of retinal involvement by cytomegalovirus retinitis, higher patient age, and lower CD4+ T-cell counts were associated with an increased risk of retinal detachment; myopia was not. CONCLUSIONS: Retinal detachment in patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis is unrelated to the type of intravenous therapy used or to refractive error. The median time to retinal detachment in an involved eye with cytomegalovirus retinitis and free of retinal detachment at baseline was 18.2 months. Strategies to reduce the extent of retinitis and possibly the number of reactivations may reduce the incidence of retinal detachment.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 61-70 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | American journal of ophthalmology |
Volume | 124 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1997 |
Funding
Supported by cooperative agreements from the National Eye Institute to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (U10 EY 08052), School of Hygiene and Public Health (U10 EY 08057), and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine (U10 EY 08067). Additional support provided by the National Center for Research Resources through General Clinical Research Center grants 5M01 RR 00350 (Baylor College of Medicine), 5M01 RR 00035 and 5M01 RR 00722 (The Johns Hopkins University), 5M01 RR 05096 (Louisiana State University/ Tulane), 5M01 RR 00071 (Mt Sinai Medical Center), 5M01 RR 00047 (New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center), 5M01 RR 00096 (New York University), 5M01 RR 00048 (Northwestern University), 5M01 RR 000865 (University of California, Los Angeles), 5M01 RR 00083 (University of California, San Francisco), and 5M01 RR 05280 (University of Miami). Support also provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases through cooperative agreements UOl AI 27668 (The Johns Hopkins University), UOl AI 27674 (Louisiana State University/Tulane), UOl AI 27669 (Memorial Sloan-Kettering), UOl AI 25917 (New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center), UOl AI 27667 (Mount Sinai Medical Center), UOl AI 27665 (New York University), UOl AI 25915 (Northwestern University), UOl AI 27660 (University of California, Los Angeles), UOl AI 27670 (University of California, San Diego), UOl AI 27663 (University of California, San Francisco), and UOl AI 25831 (University of Massachusetts). Funding also provided by Astra USA, Inc, Westborough, Massachusetts. Drugs provided by Astra USA, Inc; Burroughs Wellcome Co, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and Syntex Research, Palo Alto, California. *AU individuals participating in this study are listed at the end of the article. Financial disclosure statements are on file at the SOCA Coordinating Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ophthalmology