PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to describe the frequency and characteristics of uveitis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis at a tertiary referral centre in Spain. METHODS Review of clinical records. 205 children diagnosed with chronic juvenile arthritis over the last 15 years, of whom 26 presented anterior uveitis. Patients were classified according to their pattern of evolut...

A 14-year-old girl with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)-associated uveitis who also had optic disc edema, was later diagnosed Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). To our knowledge, this is the fifth case of coexistence and IIH among children, only one no obvious risk factors for IIH.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of adalimumab in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)-associated uveitis. METHODS Retrospective observational study of 20 patients with JIA and chronic uveitis on adalimumab treatment. The ocular inflammation and improvement was assessed according to the Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature criteria. RESULTS At the initiation of adalimumab, the mean age ...

CA SE PRE SENTATION An 11-year-old girl presented to our clinic with glaucoma in her left eye secondary to juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis. The patient’s right eye was pseudophakic after undergoing a trabeculectomy 4 years earlier and cataract extraction with IOL implantation a few years later. In 2006, an outside ophthalmologist performed a trabeculectomy with mitomycin C on t...

Objective: To report a case of bilateral anterior uveitis secondary to oral moxifloxacin. Methods: Case report. Results: A 54-year-old female presented bilateral anterior uveitis following a 10-day course of oral moxifloxacin. She developed a bilateral anterior uveitis associated with pigment dispersion syndrome and iris transillumination. Conclusions: Drug-induced uveitis is one of the causes ...

PURPOSE To identify any patterns in the cause of anterior uveitis in a Turkish population and compare them with results from previous studies. METHODS The clinical records of 75 patients between January 2009 and January 2010 were retrospectively analyzed and classified as anterior uveitis according to Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature criteria. Complete blood count, sedimentation rate, ...

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...

BACKGROUND Currently, there are a limited number of reports of structural changes in the retina and choroid in acute anterior uveitis (AAU). The aim of this study was to evaluate choroidal and central foveal thicknesses during episodes of AAU. METHODS The medical records of 120 patients with AAU and 120 healthy subjects matched for age, sex, and spherical equivalent of refractive error were r...

AIM To investigate the therapeutic value of azathioprine as monotherapy or combined with other immunosuppressive drugs for uveitis in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS A retrospective multicentre study including 41 children with JIA (28 (68.2%) female) with unilateral or bilateral (n=28) chronic anterior uveitis. Azathioprine was used to treat uveitis that was active ...

Uveitis is the most common extra-articular manifestation of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, which is the most common systemic cause of uveitis in children. Known risk factors for uveitis include antinuclear antibody seropositivity, young age of arthritis onset, specific juvenile idiopathic arthritis subtype and short duration of disease. Risk markers for severe ocular disease include gender, age...