Eye Infection Complications in Rheumatic Diseases
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چکیده
Rheumatic diseases are a group of illnesses characterized by the inflammation of the connec‐ tive tissue, usually of autoimmunological origin. Although most of the symptoms of the rheumatic diseases concern primarily musculoskeletal system, in many of these disorders pathological changes take also place in various other organs. Changes in the organ of sight in the rheumatic diseases may result from the inflammatory process taking place in the course of immunological dysfunctions and their manifestations may precede typical in these illnesses musculoskeletal symptoms. Damage to the organ of sight may also be secondary to vascular lesions occurring in the course of its inflammation or may be the result of complica‐ tions arising from the therapy of the rheumatic disease. (Table 1).
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