doi: 10.1080/09273948.2020.1716025.
Epub 2020 Apr 6.
The Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS) Consensus (CON) Group Meeting Proceedings
Rupesh Agrawal
1
2
3
, Ilaria Testi
2
, Sarakshi Mahajan
4
, Yew Sen Yuen
5
, Aniruddha Agarwal
6
, Andres Rousselot
7
, Dhananjay Raje
8
, Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran
1
2
4
, Onn Min Kon
9
, Talin Barisani-Asenbauer
10
, John H Kempen
11
, Amod Gupta
6
, Douglas A Jabs
12
, Justine R Smith
13
, Bahram Bodaghi
14
, Manfred Zierhut
15
, Marc DeSmet
16
, Peter Mc Cluskey
17
, Mamta Agarwal
18
, Manisha Agarwal
19
, Kanika Aggarwal
6
, Mukesh Agrawal
20
, Hassan Al-Dhibi
21
, Sofia Androudi
22
, Fatma Asyari
23
, Manohar Babu Balasundaram
24
, Kalpana Babu Murthy
25
, Edoardo Baglivo
26
, Alay Banker
27
, Reema Bansal
6
, Soumyava Basu
28
, Digamber Behera
6
, Jyotirmay Biswas
18
, Ester Carreño
29
, Laure Caspers
30
, Soon Phaik Chee
3
31
, Romi Chhabra
32
, Luca Cimino
33
, Luz Elena Concha Del Rio
34
, Emmett T Cunningham
35
, Andrè Luiz Land Curi
36
, Dipankar Das
37
, Ekaterina Denisova
38
, Alastair K Denniston
2
39
, Marie-Hélène Errera
40
, Alejandro Fonollosa
41
, Amala George
18
, Debra A Goldstein
42
, Yan Guex Crosier
43
, Avinash Gurbaxani
2
, Alessandro Invernizzi
44
, Hazlita M Isa
45
, Shah Md Islam
46
, Nicholas Jones
32
, Deeksha Katoch
6
, Moncef Khairallah
47
, Amit Khosla
48
, Michal Kramer
49
, Amitabh Kumar
50
, Atul Kumar
51
, Rina La Distia Nora
23
, Richard Lee
2
, Careen Lowder
52
, Saurabh Luthra
53
, Padmamalini Mahendradas
54
, Dorine Makhoul
30
, Shahana Mazumdar
55
, Salil Mehta
56
, Elisabetta Miserocchi
57
, Manabu Mochizuki
58
, Oli S Mohamed
59
, Cristina Muccioli
60
, Marion R Munk
61
, Somasheila Murthy
62
, Shishir Narain
63
, Heloisa Nascimento
64
, Piergiorgio Neri
65
, Myhanh Nguyen
66
, Annabelle A Okada
67
, Pinar Ozdal
68
, Alan Palestine
69
, Francesco Pichi
65
, S R Rathinam
70
, Ariel Schlaen
71
, Shobha Sehgal
6
, H Nida Sen
72
, Aman Sharma
6
, Kusum Sharma
6
, Samir S Shoughy
73
, Nirbhai Singh
6
, Ramandeep Singh
6
, Masoud Soheilian
74
, Sudharshan Sridharan
18
, Jennifer E Thorne
75
, Christoph Tappeiner
61
, Stephen Teoh
76
, Maria Sofia Tognon
77
, Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun
78
, Mudit Tyagi
79
, Harvey Uy
80
, Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos Santos
81
, Natasa Vidovic Valentincic
82
, Mark Westcott
2
, Ryoji Yanai
83
, Bety Yanez Alvarez
84
, Rahman Zahedur
85
, Quan Dong Nguyen
4
, Carlos Pavesio
2
, Vishali Gupta
6
Affiliations
Affiliations
- 1 National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
- 2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
- 3 Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore.
- 4 Byers Eye Institute, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
- 5 Department of Ophthalmology, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
- 6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
- 7 Department of Ophthalmology, Universidad del Salvador of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 8 MDS Bioanalytics, Nagpur, India.
- 9 Chest and Allergy Clinic, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Heathcare Service Trust, London, United Kingdom.
- 10 OCUVAC - Centre of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology & Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
- 11 Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 12 Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
- 13 Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health, Adelaide, Australia.
- 14 Department of Ophthalmology, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
- 15 Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
- 16 Department of Ophthalmology ZNA Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium.
- 17 Department of Ophthalmology, Director Save Sight Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- 18 Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India.
- 19 Dr Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital Daryaganj, New Delhi, India.
- 20 VIMTA's Clinical Research and Clinical Reference Lab, Hyderabad, India.
- 21 King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 22 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.
- 23 INOIIS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Indonesia, Indonesia.
- 24 Aravind Eye Care System, Coimbatore, India.
- 25 Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology, Bangalore, India.
- 26 Department of Ophthalmology, Clinique de l'oeil, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 27 Banker's Retina Clinic and Laser Centre, 5 Subhash Society, Ahmedabad, India.
- 28 LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, India.
- 29 Hospital Universitario Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain.
- 30 Department of Ophthalmology, CHU Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
- 31 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
- 32 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
- 33 Ocular Immunology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
- 34 Asociacion Para Evitar La Ceguera En Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 35 Department of Ophthalmology, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- 36 Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Brazil.
- 37 Department of Ocular Pathology, Uveitis & Neuro-Ophthalmology Services, Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati, India.
- 38 Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russia.
- 39 Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- 40 Centre National d'Ophtalmologie des 15-20, Paris, Sorbonne-Universités, Paris 6, France.
- 41 Hospital Universitario Cruces, Cruces-Barakaldo, Bilbao, Vizcaya (Spain).
- 42 Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 43 Jules Gonin Eye Hospital, FAA, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 44 Eye Clinic, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Science "L. Sacco", Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
- 45 Gleneagles Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 46 Ibn Sina Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- 47 Department of Ophthalmology, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia.
- 48 Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
- 49 Department of Ophthalmology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel.
- 50 Department of Uvea, Aditya Birla Sankara Nethralaya, Kolkata, India.
- 51 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
- 52 Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
- 53 Drishti Eye Centre, Dehradun, Uttranchal, India.
- 54 Department of Uveitis and Ocular Immunology, Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India.
- 55 Department of Vitreoretina and Uvea, ICARE Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- 56 Department of Ophthalmology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Center, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai, India.
- 57 Ophthalmology Department, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
- 58 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 59 Hospital Shah Alam, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
- 60 Instituto da Visão, Hospital São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
- 61 Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- 62 Tej Kohli Cornea Institute, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad, India.
- 63 Shroff Eye Centre, New Delhi, India.
- 64 Instituto da Visão, Hospital São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), SP, Brazil.
- 65 Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
- 66 Cao Thang Eye Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- 67 Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
- 68 Department of Ophthalmology, Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.
- 69 University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.
- 70 Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai, India.
- 71 Hospital Universitario Austral, Hospital de Clinicas "Jose de San Martín", Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 72 The Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
- 73 The Eye Center and The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
- 74 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
- 75 Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- 76 Eagle Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
- 77 Ocular Immunology Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, S. Antonio Hospital, Padova, Italy.
- 78 Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul University, Turkey.
- 79 LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.
- 80 Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Service, Asian Eye Institute, Makati, Philippines.
- 81 Uveitis Unit, Hospital São Geraldo/Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- 82 Eye Hospital, UMC Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 83 Yamaguchi University Hospital, Ube, Japan.
- 84 Dos De Mayo Hospital, Lima, Perù.
- 85 Eastern University, Bangladesh.
- PMID: 32250731
- DOI: 10.1080/09273948.2020.1716025
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Epub 2020 Apr 6.
Authors
Rupesh Agrawal
1
2
3
, Ilaria Testi
2
, Sarakshi Mahajan
4
, Yew Sen Yuen
5
, Aniruddha Agarwal
6
, Andres Rousselot
7
, Dhananjay Raje
8
, Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran
1
2
4
, Onn Min Kon
9
, Talin Barisani-Asenbauer
10
, John H Kempen
11
, Amod Gupta
6
, Douglas A Jabs
12
, Justine R Smith
13
, Bahram Bodaghi
14
, Manfred Zierhut
15
, Marc DeSmet
16
, Peter Mc Cluskey
17
, Mamta Agarwal
18
, Manisha Agarwal
19
, Kanika Aggarwal
6
, Mukesh Agrawal
20
, Hassan Al-Dhibi
21
, Sofia Androudi
22
, Fatma Asyari
23
, Manohar Babu Balasundaram
24
, Kalpana Babu Murthy
25
, Edoardo Baglivo
26
, Alay Banker
27
, Reema Bansal
6
, Soumyava Basu
28
, Digamber Behera
6
, Jyotirmay Biswas
18
, Ester Carreño
29
, Laure Caspers
30
, Soon Phaik Chee
3
31
, Romi Chhabra
32
, Luca Cimino
33
, Luz Elena Concha Del Rio
34
, Emmett T Cunningham
35
, Andrè Luiz Land Curi
36
, Dipankar Das
37
, Ekaterina Denisova
38
, Alastair K Denniston
2
39
, Marie-Hélène Errera
40
, Alejandro Fonollosa
41
, Amala George
18
, Debra A Goldstein
42
, Yan Guex Crosier
43
, Avinash Gurbaxani
2
, Alessandro Invernizzi
44
, Hazlita M Isa
45
, Shah Md Islam
46
, Nicholas Jones
32
, Deeksha Katoch
6
, Moncef Khairallah
47
, Amit Khosla
48
, Michal Kramer
49
, Amitabh Kumar
50
, Atul Kumar
51
, Rina La Distia Nora
23
, Richard Lee
2
, Careen Lowder
52
, Saurabh Luthra
53
, Padmamalini Mahendradas
54
, Dorine Makhoul
30
, Shahana Mazumdar
55
, Salil Mehta
56
, Elisabetta Miserocchi
57
, Manabu Mochizuki
58
, Oli S Mohamed
59
, Cristina Muccioli
60
, Marion R Munk
61
, Somasheila Murthy
62
, Shishir Narain
63
, Heloisa Nascimento
64
, Piergiorgio Neri
65
, Myhanh Nguyen
66
, Annabelle A Okada
67
, Pinar Ozdal
68
, Alan Palestine
69
, Francesco Pichi
65
, S R Rathinam
70
, Ariel Schlaen
71
, Shobha Sehgal
6
, H Nida Sen
72
, Aman Sharma
6
, Kusum Sharma
6
, Samir S Shoughy
73
, Nirbhai Singh
6
, Ramandeep Singh
6
, Masoud Soheilian
74
, Sudharshan Sridharan
18
, Jennifer E Thorne
75
, Christoph Tappeiner
61
, Stephen Teoh
76
, Maria Sofia Tognon
77
, Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun
78
, Mudit Tyagi
79
, Harvey Uy
80
, Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos Santos
81
, Natasa Vidovic Valentincic
82
, Mark Westcott
2
, Ryoji Yanai
83
, Bety Yanez Alvarez
84
, Rahman Zahedur
85
, Quan Dong Nguyen
4
, Carlos Pavesio
2
, Vishali Gupta
6
Affiliations
- 1 National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
- 2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
- 3 Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore.
- 4 Byers Eye Institute, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
- 5 Department of Ophthalmology, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
- 6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
- 7 Department of Ophthalmology, Universidad del Salvador of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 8 MDS Bioanalytics, Nagpur, India.
- 9 Chest and Allergy Clinic, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Heathcare Service Trust, London, United Kingdom.
- 10 OCUVAC - Centre of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology & Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
- 11 Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 12 Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
- 13 Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health, Adelaide, Australia.
- 14 Department of Ophthalmology, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
- 15 Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
- 16 Department of Ophthalmology ZNA Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium.
- 17 Department of Ophthalmology, Director Save Sight Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- 18 Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India.
- 19 Dr Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital Daryaganj, New Delhi, India.
- 20 VIMTA's Clinical Research and Clinical Reference Lab, Hyderabad, India.
- 21 King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 22 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.
- 23 INOIIS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Indonesia, Indonesia.
- 24 Aravind Eye Care System, Coimbatore, India.
- 25 Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology, Bangalore, India.
- 26 Department of Ophthalmology, Clinique de l'oeil, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 27 Banker's Retina Clinic and Laser Centre, 5 Subhash Society, Ahmedabad, India.
- 28 LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, India.
- 29 Hospital Universitario Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain.
- 30 Department of Ophthalmology, CHU Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
- 31 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
- 32 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
- 33 Ocular Immunology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
- 34 Asociacion Para Evitar La Ceguera En Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 35 Department of Ophthalmology, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- 36 Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Brazil.
- 37 Department of Ocular Pathology, Uveitis & Neuro-Ophthalmology Services, Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati, India.
- 38 Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russia.
- 39 Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- 40 Centre National d'Ophtalmologie des 15-20, Paris, Sorbonne-Universités, Paris 6, France.
- 41 Hospital Universitario Cruces, Cruces-Barakaldo, Bilbao, Vizcaya (Spain).
- 42 Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 43 Jules Gonin Eye Hospital, FAA, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 44 Eye Clinic, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Science "L. Sacco", Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
- 45 Gleneagles Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 46 Ibn Sina Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- 47 Department of Ophthalmology, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia.
- 48 Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
- 49 Department of Ophthalmology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel.
- 50 Department of Uvea, Aditya Birla Sankara Nethralaya, Kolkata, India.
- 51 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
- 52 Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
- 53 Drishti Eye Centre, Dehradun, Uttranchal, India.
- 54 Department of Uveitis and Ocular Immunology, Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India.
- 55 Department of Vitreoretina and Uvea, ICARE Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- 56 Department of Ophthalmology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Center, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai, India.
- 57 Ophthalmology Department, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
- 58 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 59 Hospital Shah Alam, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
- 60 Instituto da Visão, Hospital São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
- 61 Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- 62 Tej Kohli Cornea Institute, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad, India.
- 63 Shroff Eye Centre, New Delhi, India.
- 64 Instituto da Visão, Hospital São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), SP, Brazil.
- 65 Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
- 66 Cao Thang Eye Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- 67 Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
- 68 Department of Ophthalmology, Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.
- 69 University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.
- 70 Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai, India.
- 71 Hospital Universitario Austral, Hospital de Clinicas "Jose de San Martín", Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 72 The Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
- 73 The Eye Center and The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
- 74 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
- 75 Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- 76 Eagle Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
- 77 Ocular Immunology Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, S. Antonio Hospital, Padova, Italy.
- 78 Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul University, Turkey.
- 79 LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.
- 80 Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Service, Asian Eye Institute, Makati, Philippines.
- 81 Uveitis Unit, Hospital São Geraldo/Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- 82 Eye Hospital, UMC Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 83 Yamaguchi University Hospital, Ube, Japan.
- 84 Dos De Mayo Hospital, Lima, Perù.
- 85 Eastern University, Bangladesh.
- PMID: 32250731
- DOI: 10.1080/09273948.2020.1716025
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An international, expert led consensus initiative was set up by the Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS) group to develop systematic, evidence, and experience-based recommendations for the treatment of ocular TB using a modified Delphi technique process. In the first round of Delphi, the group identified clinical scenarios pertinent to ocular TB based on five clinical phenotypes (anterior uveitis, intermediate uveitis, choroiditis, retinal vasculitis, and panuveitis). Using an interactive online questionnaires, guided by background knowledge from published literature, 486 consensus statements for initiating ATT were generated and deliberated amongst 81 global uveitis experts. The median score of five was considered reaching consensus for initiating ATT. The median score of four was tabled for deliberation through Delphi round 2 in a face-to-face meeting. This report describes the methodology adopted and followed through the consensus process, which help elucidate the guidelines for initiating ATT in patients with choroidal TB.
Keywords: Antitubercular therapy; Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study Consensus (COTS CON); choroiditis; consensus guidelines; ocular tuberculosis.
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