PURPOSE To determine the proportion of patients with central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) mistaken for posterior uveitis and to identify the deleterious consequences. METHODS Charts of 1,657 patients admitted in the section of inflammatory eye diseases at the Center for Ophthalmic Specialized Care (COS) in Lausanne, Switzerland from 1995 to 2013 were reviewed. CSCR cases misdiagnosed as po...

The World Health Organization currently estimates that nearly two billion people, or one-third of the world's population, are infected by tuberculosis, and that roughly 10% of the infected people are symptomatic. Tuberculosis affects the lungs in 80% of patients, while in the remaining 20% the disease may affect other organs, including the eye. Uveitis can be seen concurrently with tuberculosis...

To evaluate the visual outcomes of cataract surgery in patients with uveitis, and to determine risk factors for the recurrence of uveitis and postoperative complications.Eighty patients with uveitis who underwent phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation were included in this retrospective study. We analyzed the following data: patient characteristics, medications used, visua...

Occasional reports of uveitis following topiramate use necessitated an investigation of relevant cases from safety databases and published biomedical literature. Data mining of the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System and cumulative review of cases from the global safety database (sponsor database) and published literature were conducted to assess association between topi...

Do TNF-blockers reduce or induce uveitis? SIR, Uveitis is a well-known manifestation of SpAs that may lead to functional impairment. TNF-blockers are effective for treating SpA-related uveitis flares [1], but recent retrospective studies support the possibility of differential TNF-blockers effectiveness, with infliximab or adalimumab showing a higher efficacy than etanercept in the treatment of...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to conduct an in-depth analysis of traumatic uveitis in patients managed in a mid-Atlantic tertiary care center with the goal of better characterizing the clinical features and outcomes of this large and important subset of uveitis patients. METHODS This was a retrospective, observational study comparing traumatic uveitis patients with nontraumatic uveiti...

antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies were detected in patients with some autoimmune and vascular disease such as wegner’s granulomatosis polyarthritis nodosa and systemic lupus erythematosus. indirect immunofluorescence technique was employed to detect these autoantibodies. by this method, two general patterns of antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies were seen: a cytoplasmic (c-anca) a...

We investigated the incidence of circulating corneal epithelium antibodies in patients with uveitis. A high percentage of the patients (42%) were positive, whereas only 4% of controls had these antibodies in their serum. Significantly more patients with anterior and diffuse uveitis had corneal epithelium antibodies than did those with posterior uveitis. Subdivision of anterior uveitis into HLA-...

Aim To determine the risk factors for macular edema (ME) in children with uveitis. Methods A retrospective study was conducted of 150 pediatric patients (264 eyes) uveitis attending 2 tertiary medical centers. Data were collected from files on demographics, type uveitis, etiology, clinical findings, treatment, and time to development ME. Risk ME identified. Results developed 63 eyes (23.9%) ove...

AIMS To determine whether HLA-B27 typing helps the clinician in the diagnostic examination of uveitis in a HLA-B27 rich population and also whether the clinical picture of HLA-B27 positive unilateral acute or recurrent anterior uveitis (AAU) is distinguishable from the idiopathic negative form. METHODS During a 3 year period 220 consecutive patients with undetermined uveitis at onset were exa...