Incidence and Clinical Predictors of Ocular Candidiasis in Patients with Candida Fungemia

Table 2

Bivariate analysis of factors associated with ocular candidiasis.

Variables	No ocular candidiasis; = 126	Ocular candidiasis; = 18	value
Age (in years)	54 ± 19	55 ± 11	0.96
Male gender, (%)	86 (68)	12 (67)	0.89
Number of positive BC (mean ± SD)	2 ± 1.5	2.2 ± 2.2	0.88
Time from (+) BC to fundoscopy^a	6.0 ± 6.0	4.9 ± 3.7	0.53
Time from (+) BC to AFT^a	0.7 ± 4.8	0.8 ± 2.2	0.27
Total parenteral nutrition, (%)	62 (49)	8 (44)	0.71
Medical care in the ICU, (%)	77 (61)	9 (50)	0.37
HD during the same hospitalization, (%)	30 (24)	2 (11)	0.23
Steroid use, (%)	52 (41)	3 (17)	0.045
Intravenous drug use, (%)	6 (4.8)	3 (17)	0.051
Chronic immunosuppression, (%)	18 (14)	1 (6)	0.3
Apache score (mean ± SD)	13 ± 6.5	14 ± 7.6	0.81
Candida albicans versus Candida non-albicans, (%)	61 (48)	11 (61)	0.32

Note. ^aIn days; AFT: antifungal therapy; BC: blood cultures; HD: hemodialysis; ICU: intensive care unit; SD: standard deviation.