NCT03753893

Ocular Manifestations in Rheumatic Diseases

Prevalence of Ocular Manifestations in Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 5,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a search strategy for determining the prevalence of ocular complications in inflammatory rheumatic diseases for the purposes of a meta analysis.

Detailed description

For the purposes of determining the prevalence of ocular complications in inflammatory rheumatic diseases, the following search terms were used: conjunctivitis, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, xerophthalmia, uveitis, eye hemorrhage, optic neuritis, papilledema, orbital disease, retinal artery/vein occlusion, macular edema, retinitis, chorioretinitis, scleritis, iridocyclitis, choroid hemorrhage, blindness and amaurosis fugax. These terms were searched in the context of a corresponding inflammatory disease on Medline, Cochrane and Web of Science from their inception (1966, 1991 and 1990 respectively) until the point of study completion. Studies were included if they provided numerical data of the prevalence or incidence of ocular manifestations in an inflammatory rheumatic disease. Studies were excluded if they were review articles, case reports where all patients experienced the same ocular comorbidity, if different comorbidities were not grouped independently, and if the study reported on fewer than 20 patients. When the same study cohort was used in more than one analysis, the most recent or largest sample-size study was included. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) checklist was used to assess the quality of cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

Conditions

• Uveitis
• Conjunctivitis
• Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca
• Xerophthalmia
• Eye Hemorrhage
• Optic Neuritis
• Papilledema
• Orbital Diseases
• Retinal Vein Occlusion
• Retinal Artery Occlusion
• Macular Edema
• Retinitis
• Chorioretinitis
• Iridocyclitis
• Scleritis
• Choroid Hemorrhage
• Blindness
• Amaurosis Fugax

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention used	no intervention used

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-01
• Primary completion: 2021-04-01
• Completion: 2021-11-01
• First posted: 2018-11-27
• Last updated: 2022-04-12