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Systemic anti-inflammatory versus fluocinolone acetonide intraocular implant
1 February 2016
| Brian Ang
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Ophthalmology
In the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) trial, 255 patients with intermediate uveitis, posterior uveitis or panuveitis were randomised to either fluocinolone acetonide intraocular implant or systemic corticosteroid therapy which was supplemented with immunosuppression if required. Patients were followed up...
Paediatric uveitis in India
1 October 2016
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Complication, etiology, management, pediatric uveitis
This article was a retrospective review of paediatric patients presenting to a tertiary hospital in India. Records over a three year period were reviewed. The authors highlight that children account for about 2.2-13.8% of uveitis patients and are at greater...
Three years of experience with quantiferon-TB Gold Testing in patients with uveitis
1 April 2015
| Nikolaos D Georgakarakos
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Epidemiology, gamma interferon release essay, infectious uveitis, quantiferon, tuberculosis
Quantiferon-TB Gold is a new alternative to the tuberculin skin test that utilises synthetic peptides representing M. tuberculosis antigens ESAT-6, CFP-10, TB7.7 and upon incubation with whole blood IFN-γ is released from pre-sensitised T cells and can be measured by...
Clinical features of ocular syphilis
7 December 2020
| Su Young
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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HIV, infectious uveitis, posterior uveitis, syphilis
The study looked at 24 patients (20 males, four females) with serological evidence of syphilitic infection who presented to a tertiary ophthalmic centre. Ocular involvement was the first manifestation of syphilitic disease in 96% and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) seropositivity...
Uveitis in the elderly
1 October 2015
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This study from Turkey evaluated the causes and clinical characteristics of uveitis in elderly patients. Data from 90 eyes of 68 patients aged 60 years and older were reviewed. Anterior uveitis was present in 75% (33% of these had keratouveitis),...
Inflammatory macular holes
1 April 2014
| Saruban Pasu
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Ophthalmology
The authors present a case of closure of a full thickness macular hole in a patient with Behçet’s disease, without surgery. The 23-year-old male they describe presented with a history of recurrent oral aphthous ulcers and a genital ulcer. Ocular...
Methotrexate and mycophenolate mofetil for non-infectious uveitis
1 February 2015
| Brian Ang
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This is the first reported randomised clinical trial comparing methotrexate versus mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for the treatment of non-infectious intermediate uveitis, posterior uveitis or panuveitis. To be eligible for recruitment, patients had to be on ≥15mg oral prednisone and demonstrated...
Uveitis in HIV infected persons
1 October 2014
| Anjali Gupta
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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AIDS, HIV, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, human immunodeficiency virus, uveitis
Before the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), uveitis, in particular cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, was the most common cause of visual loss in patients with AIDS. HAART has altered the cause of ocular disease in HIV infected individuals by...
Intraocular Inflammation
1 August 2018
| Jaya Myneni
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Ophthalmology
Intraocular Inflammation is an encyclopedic treatise on uveitis. The editors have invited several experts in the field to author different chapters and provide the reader with an excellent repository of knowledge, experience and evidence on the subject. The approach to...
Profile of sympathetic ophthalmia (SO)
7 April 2021
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors undertook this study to examine the clinical profile of patients aged <18 years with SO over the past 20 years. This was a hospital-based retrospective study from 1997 to 2017. SO is a diagnosis of bilateral panuveitis following...
The presentation of natural killer / T cell lymphoma to the oculoplastic surgeon
1 December 2014
| Konal Saha
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
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Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal lymphoma, natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, orbital lymphoma
The authors present three cases of periorbital extranodal natural killer / T cell lymphoma (ENKL). Ages were 20, 45 and 55. All of these patients presented with painless eyelid swelling and a history of sinus disease. One patient had persistent...
Persistence of Ebola virus in ocular fluid during convalescence
1 August 2015
| Jonathan CP Roos
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The most recent Ebola outbreak has infected over 26,300 patients, but also resulted in the highest number of survivors in history. Uveitis has been described during the convalescent period, but Varkey and colleagues report, for the first time, finding viable...