AIM To investigate the causes and clinical characteristics of uveitis in patients presenting to a specialized eye hospital in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS The clinical records of 1028 uveitis patients admitted between 1990 and 2010 were retrospectively reviewed. Age at first presentation, sex, laterality, etiology, associated systemic disease, clinical presentation, and course of the disease...

Although multicentric Castleman disease is a rare but life-threatening disease, eye complications are extremely uncommon. We present a case of refractory uveitis accompanied with Castleman disease successfully treated with tocilizumab. A 58-year-old man with Castleman disease was introduced for refractory uveitis to Chiba University Hospital. Large cells were detected in the anterior chamber an...

PURPOSE To report a case of tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis syndrome (TINU syndrome) with unusual unilateral neuroretinitis. METHODS An 11-year-old girl who developed anterior uveitis 3 months after acute tubulointerstitial nephritis, without any etiologic factors for either nephritis or uveitis, is presented. RESULTS Several days after the anterior uveitis, the patient presented w...

Clinical signs of uveitis, in general, includes: miosis, flare (protein +/cells in the anterior chamber as a result of a breakdown in the blood-aqueous barrier), redness or hyperemia of the episcleral/scleral blood vessels, photophobia (extreme sensitivity to light), pain (blepharospasm, squinting, photophobia, and rubbing the eye), and keratitic precipitates (accumulations of protein and monon...

we report a 32-year-old man with behçet’s disease who had simultaneous bilateral anterior uveitis, unilateral nodular scleritis and occlusive vasculitis with retinal hemorrhages at the same time. though scleritis is not considered within  the classical features of behçet’s disease behçet’s disease should be contemplated in the scleritis etiology.