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These findings are consistent with those reported by Townsend et al 12 and Hendrix et al. 9 Alcohol involvement in IDO presentations was higher than that reported by other studies 9 and higher in Northern Ireland than in Ireland.
Although the BSRBR-RA did not collect information on tumour stage at the time of diagnosis, the Swedish study found tumour stage at presentation to be largely similar between the groups, although the proportion of late presentations was higher in the control cohort (29% vs 20% stage IV), suggesting there may be a degree of surveillance bias in TNFi patients.
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We found the numbers of ED presentations were higher for people from lower socioeconomic areas and those who died at a younger age.
Platelet count at presentation was higher in patients with chronic ITP.
Taken altogether, this means that impairment due to medication side effects was unlikely to be a significant confounder in this study population, although it is conceivable that lack of or low doses of medication may mean that the level of acute distress at presentation was higher than in more comprehensively medicated samples.
The IOP at CRVO presentation was higher in the pre-existing glaucoma group (mean: 21.7 mmHg) compared to the non-pre-existing glaucoma group (13.9 mmHg).
This difference may be partly attributable to the fact that the mean age at the first presentation was higher in our cohort (71 years for MPA and 64 years for GPA) and a higher proportion of patients with EUVAS-defined severe type disease were enrolled in our study (20%%).
The lactate clearance by CVVH in our case presentation was higher than a reported result in a previous study by Levraut et al. [ 14] which found a lactate clearance with continuous venovenous hemofiltration with dialysis (CVVHDF) range of 7 36 mL/min a median filter lactate clearance of 24.2 mL/min.
At least in settings such as ours in which patients are referred to the Emergency Room after a few days of empirical treatment, the prevalence of incomplete oligosymptomatic presentations is high.
The mean age at presentation was highest for necrotizing anterior scleritis (63.7 ± 16.5 years) compared to other forms of scleritis (48.6 ± 14.1 years for diffuse, 44.0 ± 16.9 for nodular, and 49.2 ± 20.3 for posterior).
Frequency of late presentation was highest in females and age group >40 years, with being statistically significant (p < 0.001).
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