Results Of the 16 patients, 10 were treated with etanercept (62.5%), 1 with adalimumab (6.25%), and 5 (31.2%) with infliximab. Notably, two cases of uveitis were associated with use of etanercept. In 5 patients (31.2%) the antiTNF was changed because of lack of efficacy and/or side effects to another one (in 4/5 adalimumab). Ten patients had a complicated uveitis (cataract in 5). The number of ...

BACKGROUND Adult-onset Still's disease is a systemic inflammatory disease which presents with uveitis and scleritis in the eye. Intravitreal dexamethasone implants are used for the treatment of refractory uveitis. CASE PRESENTATION A 19-year-old woman diagnosed to have adult-onset Still's disease for fevers, joint pain, and a salmon-colored bumpy rash presented with scleritis and uveitis in t...

cd8 deficiency is a rare primary immunodeficiency with low or absent peripheral cd8 cells which results from tap deficiency, zap 70 deficiency and cd8 α gene mutation. we report a 14 year old female who presented with a history of recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis, otitis, severe varicella, herpetic lesions of mouth, bilateral uveitis, and cataract formation since the age of 8 years. she had ...

the present study introduces a rare case with secondary glaucoma due to anterior chamber lipoma and uveitis in a pekingese dog in iran. a four-year-old castrated male pekingese dog was referred to the private clinic with impaired vision of the left eye, pain, rubbing the left eye onto carpet, presence of a milkycoloured mass into the anterior chamber, and loss of appetite. the clinical examinat...

Ein Teil der Kinder und Jugendlichen mit einer juvenilen idiopathischen Arthritis (JIA) entwickeln im Verlauf eine Uveitis. Besteht ein zeitlicher Zusammenhang zwischen den Gelenkmanifestationen Augenerkrankung? Und sollte Arthritisschub gezielt nach Uveitis gesucht werden? Diesen Frage ging Forscherteam aus USA mithilfe retrospektiven Kohortenstudie nach.

PURPOSE Previous reports have identified noninfectious uveitis as a potential sequela following both intravitreal bevacizumab and ranibizumab injections. We present two unique cases of acute anterior uveitis following intravitreal bevacizumab that did not occur with subsequent ranibizumab injections. METHODS Case report. CONCLUSION These cases may reflect differences in the etiology of ante...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the frequency and characteristics of childhood-onset uveitis and evaluate the rate and specific causes of visual loss in this population. METHODS The data of 121 patients (179 eyes) with uveitis starting before ≤16 years and followed up for at least 6 months were retrospectively evaluated. Age at onset, sex, laterality, associated systemic disease, labo...

IMPORTANCE Psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and uveitis are inflammatory disorders with significant overlap in their inflammatory pathways. Limited evidence is available about the relationship between psoriatic disease and uveitis. OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential bidirectional relationship between psoriatic disease, including psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and uveitis. DESIGN, SET...

PURPOSE To identify risk factors for a severe uveitis course among children with noninfectious uveitis. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHOD This was a retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected database. Records of 94 children with uveitis were reviewed at enrollment and every 3-6 months (2011-2015). Severe uveitis was defined as a history of ocular complications or a visual ...

Uveitis denotes inflammation of the uveal tract of the eye and is generally categorised as either anterior (involving the iris/ciliary body) or posterior (involving the choroid as well as adjacent structures including pigment epithelium and retina). Although uveitis is a known cause of blindness, until recently there were few data reflecting the prevalence and incidence of uveitis among the bli...