Uveitis: basic concepts and differential diagnosis

Uveitis: basic concepts and differential diagnosis

Uveitis describes a variety of patterns of intraocular inflammation that may be linked with other localised ocular and orbital inflammations as well as extraocular disease. Expermental models of autimmune uveitis fail to reflect not only the clinical variety of ocular inflammatory disease but also the marked differences in pathology of human multi-system diseases that often result in very simil...

Uveitis in the Aging Eye: Incidence, Patterns, and Differential Diagnosis

Uveitis is a vision threatening inflammation of the eye that carries considerable morbidity. It is responsible for 10% of legal blindness in the United States and up to 25% in the developing world. Uveitis in patients more than 60 years of age is less common. The aging body has a changing response of the immune system, which might reflect a different pattern of uveitis in the elderly population...

Basic concepts and overview

Basic Concepts and Principles

This paper reviews and discusses some key concept and principles of risk analysis and risk management, based on a set of statements, formulated as myths about risk. Examples of such myths are: risk is equal to the expected value, risk equals uncertainty, risk can be expressed by probabilities, risk is equal to an event, risk acceptance criteria contribute to obtaining a high safety standard, an...

Basic Concepts and Extensions

The Gaia methodology (Wooldridge et al., 2000) has been the rst complete methodology for the analysis and design of multiagent systems. However, the original version of Gaia su ered from the limitations of being suitable for the analysis and design of closed multiagent systems and of adopting non-standard notation techniques. For these reasons, several extensions to the basic Gaia methodology h...