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Predictive Factors for Uveitis Refractory to Treatment in Initial‐Onset Acute Vogt‐Koyanagi‐Harada Disease

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: BACKGROUND: To identify predictive factors of uveitis refractory to treatment in initial-onset acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease. METHODS: This was a retrospective chart review of patients with initial-onset acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease presenting to the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia between July 2001 and March 2023 inclusive. Factors predictive of uveitis refractory to treatment were determined using logistic regression models with, and without, adjustment for initial use of intravenous methylprednisolone. RESULTS: Thirty-eight patients with initial-onset acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada were included, 27 of whom received initial intravenous corticosteroids (71%) and 23 met the criteria for uveitis refractory to treatment (61%). Comparing those who received intravenous corticosteroids to those who did not, the incidence of complications, time-to-quiescence, time-to-relapse, time-to-low dose corticosteroid or corticosteroid-sparing control of inflammation and time-to-remission were not statistically different (all p > 0.164). Factors at onset of treatment that were predictive for uveitis refractory to treatment included greater anterior chamber inflammation (p = 0.008), greater vitreous inflammation (p = 0.015), the absence of bacillary layer detachments on macular optical coherence tomography (p = 0.010) and commencement of systemic steroid therapy 1 week or longer after ocular symptom onset (p = 0.013). Absence of intravenous corticosteroids as initial therapy was not a statistically significant predictive factor for refractory disease (p = 0.802). CONCLUSIONS: Delayed commencement of systemic steroid therapy and higher severity of intraocular inflammation at presentation are predictive of initial-onset acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease evolving into disease refractory to treatment.

Source: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

DOI: 10.1111/ceo.14538

Authors: Thomas J. Gin, Sujan A. Surendran, Sophie L. Rogers, Lyndell L. Lim

Institutions: The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Centre for Eye Research Australia, The University of Melbourne

Language: English

Topic: Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome

Subfield: Ophthalmology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: State Government of Victoria