Purpose. To study epidemiology, clinical findings and visual prognosis of patients with Fuchs' Heterochromic Iridocyclitis (FHI). Methods. A retrospective analysis was performed on 158 patients with FHI. Thirty-five patients were observed only once; the remaining 123 had a mean follow-up of 30.7 months (50 of them had a mean follow-up of 63.5 months) and in those we assessed complications, medi...

purpose: to characterize keratic precipitate (kp) morphology in different forms of uveitis. methods: one hundred and twenty nine eyes of 93 patients with different forms of uveitis underwent confocal scan and the morphology of kps were determined. differences in kp morphologies among different uveitic groups were evaluated.  results: age ranged from 14 to 67 years (mean: 32.5±11.2) and 58 cases...

AIMS/BACKGROUND The aetiology of Fuchs' heterochromic uveitis (FHU) is unknown although it can occur in combination with a number of different ocular conditions. Five patients with FHU who show an association with sarcoidosis were studied. METHODS Four patients with clinical signs compatible with FHU who had elevated serum angiotensin converting enzyme levels (sACE), and a fifth case with a n...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the combination of Fuchs' heterochromic uveitis (FHU) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in the same patient is coincidental or represents a true association. METHODS We have examined the frequency of FHU in 338 patients with RP and in 1984 patients who were seen in our primary care ophthalmic clinic because of reasons other than RP. RESULTS Of 338 patients with ...