PURPOSE Incomplete Kawasaki disease (KD) is frequently associated with delayed diagnosis and treatment. Delayed diagnosis leads to increasing risk of coronary artery aneurysm. Anterior uveitis is an important ocular sign of KD. The purpose of this study was to assess differences in laboratory findings, including echocardiographic measurements, clinical characteristics such as fever duration and...

Uveitis is a clinical feature of the Blau syndrome, a disease linked to CARD15 (also referred to as NOD2) mutations. Three main mutations in this gene (R334W, R334Q and L469F) have been reported as Blau syndrome risk factors, a disease that manifests uveitis as one of its clinical features. However, little is known on the involvement of this gene in idiopathic uveitis. We thus sought to determi...

The Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis syndrome is a very rare condition, probably under-diagnosed in clinical practice. It is characterized by the combination of an interstitial nephritis and uveitis, and is an exclusion diagnosis. Tissue non caseating granuloma can be rarely present, with only 6 cases reported on bone marrow. We present a case of a 55 year old female with a 3-month hist...

Current data permit only speculations regarding sex differences in the prevalence of infectious uveitis between women and men because uveitis case surveys do not uniformly report gender data. Differences in prevalence that are reported in the literature could relate to simple differences in the number of women and men at risk for infection or to biological differences between men and women. Com...

Cataract formation is an especially common complication resulting from uveitis. It is rare in posterior uveitis, but occurs in up to 50% of patients with anterior and intermediate uveitis (21), and in nearly 80% of patients with Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis (FHC). Duration and intensity of inflammation, and treatment, e.g. corticosteroids and previous vitrectomy, are critical determinants ...

Background/aim: Iris nodules are an uncommon clinical sign in uveitis. The diseases most commonly associated with iris nodules and uveitis include sarcoidosis, VogtKoyanagi-Harada syndrome, multiple sclerosis, Fuchs’ heterochromic iridocyclitis, and metastatic infection. While many of these diseases may be appropriately treated with immunosuppressive medication, the management of infectious uve...

PURPOSE To report the causes, clinical features, and outcomes of infectious uveitis in patients managed in a mid-Atlantic tertiary care center. METHODS Retrospective, observational study of infectious uveitis patients seen at the University of Virginia from 1984 to 2014. RESULTS Seventy-seven of 491 patients (15.7%) were diagnosed with infectious uveitis (mean age 58 years, 71.4% female, 76...

AIM Intravenous cidofovir is used to treat cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, and has been reported to cause anterior uveitis. Relations were sought between this complication and patient characteristics that might help predict its occurrence. METHODS 17 patients with AIDS and CMV retinitis who were treated with intravenous cidofovir were identified, and the following data collected in a retrosp...

Background Uveitis may occur in the course of systemic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, or it be first clinical presentation these diseases. Objectives To determine prevalence disease patients whose initial manifestation is non-infectious uveitis. Methods Adult diagnosed with uveitis Dokuz Eylul University Ophthalmology Department and referred to investigate etiology rheumatological were includ...

Leptospiral organisms have long been presumed to be associated with the presence of equine recurrent uveitis. This project was undertaken to determine the presence of Leptospira spp. in the aqueous humor of horses with uveitis to determine if there was an association with inflammation. Thirty horses were determined to have recurrent uveitis based on clinical evaluation or history. Sixteen horse...