The Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS) Consensus (CON) Group Meeting Proceedings
Creators: name: Agrawal, Rupesh
name: Testi, Ilaria
name: Mahajan, Sarakshi
name: Yuen, Yew Sen
name: Agarwal, Aniruddha
name: Rousselot, Andres
name: Raje, Dhananjay
name: Gunasekeran, Dinesh Visva
name: Kon, Onn Min
name: Barisani-Asenbauer, Talin
name: Kempen, John H.
name: Gupta, Amod
name: Jabs, Douglas A.
name: Smith, Justine R.
name: Bodaghi, Bahram
name: Zierhut, Manfred
name: DeSmet, Marc
name: Cluskey, Peter Mc
name: Agarwal, Mamta
name: Agarwal, Manisha
name: Aggarwal, Kanika
name: Agrawal, Mukesh
name: Al-Dhibi, Hassan
name: Androudi, Sofia
name: Asyari, Fatma
name: Balasundaram, Manohar Babu
name: Murthy, Kalpana Babu
name: Baglivo, Edoardo
name: Banker, Alay
name: Bansal, Reema
name: Basu, Soumyava
name: Behera, Digamber
name: Biswas, Jyotirmay
name: Carreño, Ester
name: Caspers, Laure
name: Chee, Soon Phaik
name: Chhabra, Romi
name: Cimino, Luca
name: del Rio, Luz Elena Concha
name: Cunningham, Emmett T.
name: Curi, Andrè Luiz Land
name: Das, Dipankar
name: Denisova, Ekaterina
name: Denniston, Alastair K
name: Errera, Marie-Hélène
name: Fonollosa, Alejandro
name: George, Amala
name: Goldstein, Debra A.
name: Crosier, Yan Guex
name: Gurbaxani, Avinash
name: Invernizzi, Alessandro
name: Isa, Hazlita M.
name: Islam, Shah Md.
name: Jones, Nicholas
name: Katoch, Deeksha
name: Khairallah, Moncef
name: Khosla, Amit
name: Kramer, Michal
name: Kumar, Amitabh
name: Kumar, Atul
name: La Distia Nora, Rina
name: Lee, Richard
name: Lowder, Careen
name: Luthra, Saurabh
name: Mahendradas, Padmamalini
name: Makhoul, Dorine
name: Mazumdar, Shahana
name: Mehta, Salil
name: Miserocchi, Elisabetta
name: Mochizuki, Manabu
name: Mohamed, Oli S.
name: Muccioli, Cristina
name: Munk, Marion R
name: Murthy, Somasheila
name: Narain, Shishir
name: Nascimento, Heloisa
name: Neri, Piergiorgio
name: Nguyen, Myhanh
name: Okada, Annabelle A.
name: Ozdal, Pinar
name: Palestine, Alan
name: Pichi, Francesco
name: Rathinam, S.R
name: Schlaen, Ariel
name: Sehgal, Shobha
name: Sen, H Nida
name: Sharma, Aman
name: Sharma, Kusum
name: Shoughy, Samir S.
name: Singh, Nirbhai
name: Singh, Ramandeep
name: Soheilian, Masoud
name: Sridharan, Sudharshan
name: Thorne, Jennifer E.
name: Tappeiner, Christoph
name: Teoh, Stephen
name: Tognon, Maria Sofia
name: Tugal-Tutkun, Ilknur
name: Tyagi, Mudit
name: Uy, Harvey
name: Santos, Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos
name: Valentincic, Natasa Vidovic
name: Westcott, Mark
name: Yanai, Ryoji
name: Alvarez, Bety Yanez
name: Zahedur, Rahman
name: Nguyen, Quan Dong
name: Pavesio, Carlos
name: Gupta, Vishali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: An international, expert led consensus initiative was set up by the Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS) group to develop systematic, evidence, and experience-based recommendations for the treatment of ocular TB using a modified Delphi technique process. In the first round of Delphi, the group identified clinical scenarios pertinent to ocular TB based on five clinical phenotypes (anterior uveitis, intermediate uveitis, choroiditis, retinal vasculitis, and panuveitis). Using an interactive online questionnaires, guided by background knowledge from published literature, 486 consensus statements for initiating ATT were generated and deliberated amongst 81 global uveitis experts. The median score of five was considered reaching consensus for initiating ATT. The median score of four was tabled for deliberation through Delphi round 2 in a face-to-face meeting. This report describes the methodology adopted and followed through the consensus process, which help elucidate the guidelines for initiating ATT in patients with choroidal TB.