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...

AIM To analyze current understanding of the factors that contribute to raised intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with uveitis. METHODS A pubmed literature review was carried out using words including "uveitic glaucoma", "IOP AND uveitis", "ocular hypertension AND uveitis", "inflammation AND glaucoma", "aqueous dynamics" AND "glaucoma/uveitis". RESULTS Of the two studies looking at the a...

PURPOSE To investigate the clinical features of secondary glaucoma associated with uveitis. METHODS The subjects of the study were 1,099 patients with uveitis (1,604 eyes) treated at the Miyata Eye Hospital, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, between October 1974 and January 2000. The intraocular pressure (IOP) and clinical data were analyzed retrospectively. Secondary glaucoma was diagnosed in the patien...

UNLABELLED Multiple sclerosis (SM) is an idiopathic, demyelinating CNS disease, with often ocular manifestations. Besides the most common SM ocular manifestation-optic neuritis, particular attention should be paid to uveitis. It is estimated that uveitis is ten times more frequent in population with SM than on population without it. PURPOSE The aim of this study is to present our own observat...

AIMS/BACKGROUND Recently HTLV-I has been shown to cause a kind of endogenous uveitis in south west Japan, where HTLV-I infection is highly endemic. To investigate further the association of HTLV-I infection with the incidence of this uveitis, HTLV-I seroprevalence in central Japan, where HTLV-I infection is not endemic, was studied. METHODS HTLV-I seroprevalence was investigated in 1579 patie...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the development of cataract and the results of cataract surgery with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in patients with chronic uveitis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). PATIENTS AND METHODS A hospital-based retrospective case series consisted of 25 patients with JIA-associated uveitis. The mean age of the patients was 5.8 years at the onset of arthr...

T o our knowledge, 3 reports in the literature document the presence of uveitis in patients with granuloma annulare (GA) (Table). Oz et al first reported this association in a 51-year-old woman with anterior uveitis, an inflammatory disease of the iris and ciliary body. Rahimi and Moinfar later reported a similar case of anterior uveitis and biopsy-proven GA. Resolution of both skin and ocular ...