A series of 59 patients were examined for loss of corneal sensitivity. Thirty-five of them suffered from scleritis and 24 suffered from episcleritis. There was a difference between the 2 conditions in that significantly more patients with scleritis were affected than patients with episcleritis. It was also found that among the scleritis patients there was a close relationship between the number...

Approximately 50% of patients with scleritis are known to be associated with systemic connective tissue diseases or vasculitic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Wegener's granulomatosis, relapsing polychondritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. The patients with scleritis in association with Behcet's disease (BD) have been rarely described in the literature. We report a 46-year-old ...

Scleritis can be a destructive disease frequently associated with autoimmune disorders. It is believed that primary vasculitis plays an important role in its pathogenesis, but little is known about the cellular effector mechanisms. The purpose of this study was to analyse the inflammatory cellular infiltrate in scleritis. Six episcleral biopsies and two enucleated eyes were studied. The episcle...

PURPOSE To describe a patient with an initial diagnosis of unilateral posterior scleritis who developed bilateral Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease 12 months later. CASE A 38-year-old woman was diagnosed with posterior scleritis in her right eye at successive examinations. The left eye showed no signs of ocular inflammation. OBSERVATIONS Her right eye developed a second attack of posterior...

PURPOSE/METHODS To describe one case of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva in a 74-year-old woman, who two years previously had presented with a lesion which appeared to be an anterior nodular scleritis. RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS An anterior nodular scleritis, which did not respond to therapy, preceded the development of a squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva adjacent to it. ...

in reducing prednisolone to 5 mg (original maintenance dosage) without any recurrences (Fig. 1). To date, there has been no flare-up of scleritis for 12 months. According to previous reports, TNFa may play a role in uveitis and scleritis in patients with RA (Di Girolamo et al. 1997; Braun et al. 2005; Smith et al. 2005), but anecdotal reports paradoxically implicated etanercept as a cause of uv...

INTRODUCTION Pain in scleritis may be difficult to control with conventional immuno-suppressive regimes. Amitriptyline may be an effective option in those circumstances. CASE PRESENTATION A 41-year-old woman presented with scleritis and eye pain that was refractory to treatment with steroid and immunosuppressive agents. Effective pain relief and reduction of steroid dose was only achieved aft...

Scleritis commonly is a recurrent disease that requires long term immunosuppressive treatment that can be associated with significant adverse effects. Although topical and periorbital steroids are accepted therapeutic options for treatment of scleritis, subconjunctival administration of depot corticosteroids has been considered unsafe owing to the risk of scleral thinning and perforation. Recen...

We report a case of posterior scleritis effectively managed with intravitreal bevacizumab. A 71-year-old woman was diagnosed with posterior scleritis. Although she was initially treated with systemic steroids, her clinical presentation deteriorated. She was then treated with a single intravitreal injection of bevacizumab and aqueous humor collection. The aqueous level of vascular endothelial gr...

Purpose. To describe a case of postoperative scleritis caused by a novel strain of Nocardia resistant to linezolid and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX). Methods. Case report of a patient with microbiologically proven scleritis due to Nocardia asteroides. Results. The patient presented with pain, redness, and nodules on the sclera three months following pterygium excision with mitomycin C...