Standardization of Nomenclature for Ocular Tuberculosis - Results of Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS) Workshop

Agrawal R 1 , Agarwal A 2 , Jabs DA 3 , Kee A 1 , Testi I 4 , Mahajan S 5 Show all authors , McCluskey PJ 6 , Gupta A 2 , Palestine A 7 , Denniston A 8 , Banker A 9 , Invernizzi A 10 , Fonollosa A 11 , Sharma A 12 , Kumar A 13 , Curi A 14 , Okada A 15 , Schlaen A 16 , Heiligenhaus A 17 , Kumar A 18 , Gurbaxani A 4 , Bodaghi B 19 , Islam Shah B 20 , Lowder C 21 , Tappeiner C 22 , Muccioli C 23 , Vasconcelos-Santos DV 24 , Goldstein D 25 , Behra D 26 , Das D 27 , Makhoul D 28 , Baglivo E 29 , Denisova E 30 , Miserocchi E 31 , Carreno E 32 , Asyari F 33 , Pichi F 34 , Sen HN 35 , Uy H 36 , Nascimento H 23 , Tugal-Tutkun I 37 , Arevalo JF 38 , Davis J 39 , Thorne J 40 , Hisae Yamamoto J 41 , Smith J 42 , Garweg JG 43 , Biswas J 44 , Babu K 45 , Aggarwal K 2 , Cimino L 46 , Kuffova L 47 , Agarwal M 44 , Zierhut M 48 , Agarwal M 49 , De Smet M 50 , Tognon MS 51 , Errera MH 52 , Munk M 22 , Westcott M 4 , Soheilian M 53 , Accorinti M 54 , Khairallah M 55 , Nguyen M 56 , Kon OM 57 , Mahendradas P 58 , Yang P 59 , Neri P 34 , Ozdal P 60 , Amer R 61 , Lee R 4 , Distia Nora R 33 , Chhabra R 62 , Belfort R 23 , Mehta S 63 , Shoughy S 64 , Luthra S 65 , Mohamed SO 66 , Chee SP 67 , Basu S 68 , Teoh S 69 , Ganesh S 44 , Barisani-Asenbauer T 70 , Guex-Crosier Y 71 , Ozyazgan Y 37 , Akova Y 72 , Habot-Wilner Z 73 , Kempen J 74 , Nguyen QD 5 , Pavesio C 4 , Gupta V 2 , Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS) Group

Affiliations 

  • 1 National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
  • 2 Advanced Eye Center, Department of Ophthamology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
  • 3 Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • 4 Moorfields Eye Hospital, Department of Ophthamology, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
  • 5 Byers Eye Institute, Department of Ophthamology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
  • 6 Discipline of Ophthalmology, Save Sight Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health,The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • 7 University of Colorado, Denver, USA
  • 8 Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
  • 9 Banker's Retina Clinic and Laser Centre, 5 Subhash Society, Ahmedabad, India
  • 10 Eye Clinic, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Science "L. Sacco", Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • 11 Hospital Universitario Cruces, Cruces-Barakaldo, Bilbao, Vizcaya (Spain)
  • 12 Department of Rheumatology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
  • 13 Department of Uvea, Aditya Birla Sankara Nethralaya, Kolkata, India
  • 14 Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Brazil
  • 15 Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  • 16 Hospital Universitario Austral, Hospital de Clinicas "Jose de San Martín", Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • 17 Augenabteilung und Ophtha Lab am St. Franziskus-Hospital, Münster
  • 18 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  • 19 Department of Ophthalmology, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
  • 20 Ibn Sina Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 21 Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 22 Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • 23 Instituto da Visão, Hospital São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, Brazil
  • 24 Uveitis Unit, Hospital São Geraldo / Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 25 Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • 26 Deptartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India
  • 27 Department of Ocular Pathology, Uveitis & Neuro-Ophthalmology Services; Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati, India
  • 28 Department of Ophthalmology, CHU Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
  • 29 Department of Ophthalmology, Clinique de l'oeil, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 30 Helmholtz research institute of eye diseases, Moscow, Russia
  • 31 Ophthalmology Department, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
  • 32 Hospital Universitario Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
  • 33 INOIIS, Department of Ophthalmology University of Indonesia, Indonesia
  • 34 Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • 35 The Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
  • 36 Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Service, Asian Eye Institute, Makati, Philippines
  • 37 Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul University, Turkey
  • 38 Vitreoretinal Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Retina Division, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • 39 Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
  • 40 Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
  • 41 Department of Ophthalmology, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 42 Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health, Adelaide, Australia
  • 43 Swiss Eye Institute and Berner Augenklinik am Lindenhofspital, Bern, Switzerland; University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • 44 Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India
  • 45 Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology, Bangalore, India
  • 46 Ocular Immunology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • 47 Section of Immunity, Infection and Inflammation, Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Aberdeen
  • 48 Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
  • 49 Dr Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital Daryaganj, New Delhi, India
  • 50 Department of Ophthalmology ZNA Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 51 Ocular Immunology Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, S. Antonio Hospital, Padova, Italy
  • 52 Centre National d'Ophtalmologie des 15-20, Paris, Sorbonne-Universités, Paris 6, France
  • 53 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 54 Department of Ophthalmology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
  • 55 Department of Ophthalmology, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
  • 56 Cao Thang Eye Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • 57 Chest and Allergy Clinic, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Heathcare Service trust, London, United Kingdom
  • 58 Department of Uveitis and Ocular Immunology, Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India
  • 59 The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Chongqing Eye Institute, Chongqing, China
  • 60 Department of Ophthalmology, Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
  • 61 Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 62 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • 63 Department of Ophthalmology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Center, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai, India
  • 64 The Eye Center and The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, Riyad, Saudi Arabia
  • 65 Drishti Eye Centre, Dehradun, Uttranchal, India
  • 66 Hospital Shah Alam, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 67 Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 68 LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
  • 69 Eagle Eye Centre, Singapore
  • 70 OCUVAC - Centre of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology & Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna
  • 71 Jules Gonin Eye Hospital, FAA, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 72 Department of Ophthalmology, Bayindir Kavaklidere Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
  • 73 Ophthalmology Division, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 74 Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts
Ocul Immunol Inflamm, 2019 Dec 10.
PMID: 31821096 DOI: 10.1080/09273948.2019.1653933

Abstract

Purpose: To standardize a nomenclature system for defining clinical phenotypes, and outcome measures for reporting clinical and research data in patients with ocular tuberculosis (OTB).Methods: Uveitis experts initially administered and further deliberated the survey in an open meeting to determine and propose the preferred nomenclature for terms related to the OTB, terms describing the clinical phenotypes and treatment and reporting outcomes.Results: The group of experts reached a consensus on terming uveitis attributable to tuberculosis (TB) as tubercular uveitis. The working group introduced a SUN-compatible nomenclature that also defines disease "remission" and "cure", both of which are relevant for reporting treatment outcomes.Conclusion: A consensus nomenclature system has been adopted by a large group of international uveitis experts for OTB. The working group recommends the use of standardized nomenclature to prevent ambiguity in communication and to achieve the goal of spreading awareness of this blinding uveitis entity.

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