Research Article
Atypical Microbiological Feature of Infectious Endophthalmitis on Jeju Island: A 10-Year Study at a Single Tertiary Referral Center
Table 4
The comparison between treatment success and treatment failure groups.
| Variables | No. of cases (%) | Treatment success (32 eyes) | Treatment failure (17 eyes) | -value |
| Age | 62.90 ± 17.90 | 72.13 ± 13.67 | 0.086a | Sex | | | 0.990b | Male | 17 (53.1) | 9 (52.9) | | Female | 15 (46.9) | 8 (47.1) | |
| Diabetes mellitus | | | 0.038c | Yes | 5 (15.6) | 8 (47.1) | | No | 27 (84.4) | 9 (52.9) | |
| Hypertension | | | 0.801b | Yes | 12 (37.5) | 7 (41.2) | | No | 20 (62.5) | 10 (58.8) | |
| Hypopyon | | | 0.566b | Yes | 18 (56.3) | 11 (66.7) | | No | 14 (43.7) | 6 (35.3) | |
| Culture results | | | 0.715b | positive | 13 (40.6) | 6 (35.3) | | negative | 19 (59.4) | 11 (64.7) | |
| Initial BCVA (log MAR) | 1.71 ± 0.76 | 2.47 ± 0.23 | ≤0.001a |
| Treatment number | Vitrectomy | 1.42 ± 1.30 | 0.85 ± 0.80 | 0.153a | Intravitreal injection | 3.77 ± 4.95 | 2.80 ± 1.93 | 0.472a |
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PPV = pars plana vitrectomy. BCVA = best-corrected visual acuity. a Independent t-test; b Pearson’s chi-square test; c Fisher’s exact test.
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