Table 2 Patients’ characteristics.

From: Long-term outcomes of intravenous fibrinolysis in central retinal artery occlusion

Patients’ characteristics: categorical variables

IVT group (N = 16)

No-IVT group (N = 30)

Total (N = 46)

Comparison between IVT and no-IVT group p-value*

n

%

n

%

n

%

Gender—M/F

13/3

81.2/18.8

18/12

60.0/40.0

31/15

67.4/32.6

0.195

Affected side—right/left

9/7

56.2/43.8

19/11

63.3/36.7

28/18

60.9/39.1

0.754

CRAO cause

0.163

 Atheriosclerosis

5

31.2

15

50

20

43.5

 Thrombus

3

18.8

6

20

9

19.6

 Carotid stenosis

8

50.0

6

20

14

30.4

 Other

0

0.0

3

10

3

6.5

Time to treat window

 Under 3 h

4

25.0

     

 3–4.5 h

3

18.8

     

 4.5–6 h

3

18.8

     

 6–12 h

6

37.5

     

Patients’ characteristics: continuous variables

Mean (SD)

Range

Mean (SD)

Range

Mean (SD)

Range

p-value#

Age (years)

67.1 (13.0)

29–84

69.4 (9.4)

50–86

68.6 (10.7)

28–86

0.486

BCVA1 category

− 2.6 (1.2)

− 4 to 0

− 3 (1.1)

− 6 to − 1

− 2.9 (1.1)

− 6 to 0

0.279

Patients’ characteristics: continuous variables

Median (IQR)

Range

Median (IQR)

Range

Median (IQR)

Range

p-value§

BCVA1

0.0010 (0.0092)

0.0001–0.9

0.0010 (0.0097)

0–0.1

0.0010 (0.0097)

0–0.9

0.546

Time-to-hospital (h)

3.0 (1.5–6.1)

1–9

24 (8–90)

1–4032

8.5 (3.2–48)

1–4032

 < 0.0001

Time-to-treatment (h)

5.0 (3.8–7.9)

2–12

  1. IVT intravenous thrombolysis, CT computed tomography, BCVA1 initial best corrected visual acuity on first presentation, M male, F female, IQR interquartile range, range minimum to maximum.
  2. *p-value of Fisher’s exact test.
  3. #p-value of t-test.
  4. §p-value of Wilcoxons’s two-sample test.