Cutaneous vasculitis can be classified as primary or idiopathic; or secondary, when it presents as a manifestation of connective tissue diseases, infections, drug reactions or malignancies. Although most of the idiopathic cases are self-limited and responsive to supportive measures and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, potent immunosuppressants are sometimes required for the management of t...

A 39-year-old woman presented with multiple branch retinal artery occlusions almost three years before developing a mass lesion containing calcium in the left frontal lobe. Brain biopsy revealed a small vessel vasculitis and ischemic necrosis of brain with dystrophic calcification. We believe this to be the first case of primary CNS vasculitis with branch retinal artery occlusions and brain cal...

BACKGROUND Tubercular vasculitis is an important manifestation of ocular tuberculosis and this report highlights the mimicking nature of the disease with frosted branch angiitis. RESULTS A patient presented with a severe form of retinal vasculitis in both eyes and a branch retinal vein occlusion in the left eye. He had a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) and a raised erythrocyte sedimentati...

Although systemic vasculitis can be a complication of inflammatory bowel disease at several locations (skin, eyes, brain, mesentery, and lung) the association of retinal vasculitis with Crohn's disease is rare. We studied a 26-year-old woman with biopsy-demonstrated Crohn's disease who developed a severe bilateral retinal arteritis and phlebitis, with acute loss of vision.

we report a 32-year-old man with behçet’s disease who had simultaneous bilateral anterior uveitis, unilateral nodular scleritis and occlusive vasculitis with retinal hemorrhages at the same time. though scleritis is not considered within  the classical features of behçet’s disease behçet’s disease should be contemplated in the scleritis etiology.

background: the natural history of ocular lesions in behçet's disease is toward severe loss of vision/blindness in few years, whereas cytotoxic drugs have changed the outcome. several open labeled cohort studies showed pulse cyclophosphamide (pcp) to be the best choice. since one third of these patients are resistant to pcp it is important to know how much improvement one can expect from the re...