Management of bilateral uveitis secondary to intraocular filariasis.

M. Azam, Collin, Arimadyo, Cremers, and den Hollander and Mr Khan) and Ophthalmology (Drs Collin and den Hollander) and Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences (Drs Collin, Cremers, and den Hollander), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (Drs M. Azam, Bokhari, Cremers, and Qamar, Ms Malik, and Messrs Khan, S. T. A. Shah, A. A. Shah, Hussain, Sadeque, and Ajmal) and Shifa College of Medicine (Mr Ajmal), Islamabad, Institute of Ophthalmology, Mayo Hospital, Lahore (Dr A. Azam), and Vitreoretina Services, Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi (Dr Qureshi), Pakistan; and Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany (Dr Strom). Correspondence: Dr den Hollander, Departments of HumanGeneticsandOphthalmology,RadboudUniversityNijmegen Medical Centre, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, the Netherlands ([email protected]). Author Contributions: Drs M. Azam, Collin, and den Hollander had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Financial Disclosure: None reported. Funding/Support: This work was supported by grant 530 from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (Dr Qamar), in part by a core grant from Shifa College of Medicine, and by grant BR-GE-0507-0381-RAD from the Foundation Fighting Blindness (Dr den Hollander). The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan awarded an International Research Support Initiative Program Scholarship to Dr M. Azam to perform part of the research at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Mr Khan was supported by the Stichting Nederlands Oogheelkundig Onderzoek, Dr Arimadyo was supported by the Stichting Nelly Reef Fund, and Dr Cremers was supported by the Stichting ter Verbetering van het Lot der Blinden. Additional Contributions: We thank the families who participated in this study.