Review Article

Gender Differences in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease and Sympathetic Ophthalmia

Table 2

Demographic differences of sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) in the literature.

Author/yearTotal: male (%)/female (%) valueAge: mean SD 
(range, years)
Cause of SORace or regionReference

Chan et al./199532: 16 (50)/16 (50) (1–80)Trauma: 23 (71.9%) 
Surgery: 9 (28.1%)
NA[74]

Lin and Zhong/199630: 21 (70)/9 (30) 32.3 (6–66)Trauma: 24 (80%) 
Surgery: 6 (20%)
Chinese[71]

Castiblanco and Adelman/200986: 62 (72.1)/24 (27.9) 46 (3–83)Trauma: 40 (46.5%) 
Surgery: 38 (44.2%) 
Trauma + surgery: 
8 (9.3%)
NA[72]

Galor et al./200985: 50 (60)/35 (40) 44 (2–91)Trauma: 53 (62.4%) 
Surgery: 32 (37.6)
White: 57% 
African American: 23% 
Others: 20%
[73]

Al-Halafi et al./201160: 34 (56.7)/26 (43.3) (4–90)NASaudi Arabia[8]

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