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This study investigated whether patients with ischaemic retinal vasculitis have a worse visual outcome than those with non-ischaemic disease. A retrospective study was made of 53 patients with idiopathic retinal vasculitis (RV), with minimum 5 year follow-up. Patients were categorised into ischaemic and non-ischaemic groups by fluorescein angiography. Visual outcome was determined by visual acuity at their last attendance. Twenty patients (38 eyes) had ischaemic RV; 33 patients (63 eyes) had non-ischaemic RV. At presentation there was no significant difference between the groups in the proportion of eyes with poor vision (6/60 or less). Ischaemic RV patients had a worse visual outcome than those with non-ischaemic RV: 13 of 38 (34%) eyes in the ischaemic group had a final poor vision compared with 4 of 63 (6%) eyes in the non-ischaemic group (Fisher's exact test, p = 0.0005).
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Palmer, H., Stanford, M., Sanders, M. et al. Visual outcome of patients with idiopathic ischaemic and non-ischaemic retinal vasculitis. Eye 10, 343–348 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1996.71
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