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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),...
A career in uveitis
As he retires from clinical practice, the author looks back on his long career in uveitis and how care of these patients has changed dramatically since his days as an undergraduate. My trainees and fellows are often bored by my...Viral uveitis
1 October 2019
| Ivan Yip
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus, rubella virus, varicella-zoster virus, viral anterior uveitis
This review covers viral causes of anterior uveitis. A viral aetiology should be suspected when anterior uveitis is accompanied by ocular hypertension, diffuse stellate keratic precipitates or the presence of iris atrophy. Most common viruses associated are herpes simplex, varicella-zoster...
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...
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...
Uveitis Second Edition
1 October 2014
| Sofia Rokerya
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This book is a comprehensive source of information on the subject of uveitis. The target audience includes ophthalmologists, allied health professionals with special interest in this area and general physicians treating patients with multisystem inflammatory disease with involvement of the...
Association between smoking and uveitis
1 August 2015
| Brian Ang
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This is a retrospective, population-based, case-control study from the general Kaiser Hawaii population. Over a two year period (1 January 2006 to 31 December 2007), there were 100 confirmed incident cases of uveitis. Two control groups were created, with 522...
Uveitis and juvenile arthritis costs
1 June 2017
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether cost, prior insurance authorisation concerns and subspecialty practice influence therapeutic decisions in the treatment of uveitis associated with JIA. The authors developed an email questionnaire that included a brief vignette of...
Prevalence and incidence of uveitis
3 June 2021
| Patty Mopamboli Mboli
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Incidence, epidemiology, prevalence, systematic review, uveitis
Uveitis encompasses a group of diseases characterised by the inflammation of fovea uvea which are potentially vision threatening. However, the frequency of this condition is unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to provide estimates of the frequency of uveitis...
Ozurdex use in noninfectious uveitis
1 June 2016
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Dexamethasone, fluocinolone, intravitreal implant, uveitis
Burkholder et al. reported the practice patterns of 45 respondents of approximately 176 surveyed members of the American Uveitis Society regarding the use of the Ozurdex implant. Most respondents performed the injection in either a procedure (41.0%) or clinic (23.1%)...
Cataract surgery in uveitis patients
1 February 2016
| Philip Murray (Prof)
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Cataract and Refractive
Cataract formation is a common complication of uveitis, causing up to 40% of vision loss in these patients. Cataract results from inflammation +/- corticosteroid therapy and is usually posterior subcapsular, but a small proportion have a rapid increase in nuclear...
IOP in children with uveitis
1 August 2019
| Jonathan Chan
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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child health (paediatrics), glaucoma, inflammation, uveitis
This is a retrospective study of paediatric uveitis (<16-years-old) between July 2002 to June 2016 of a total of 320 children from a single centre: 17.2 % (55/320 patients) developed raised IOP requiring therapy; 11.5% of eyes required glaucoma surgery...