OBJECTIVE Assess the incidence of intraocular inflammation (uveitis) and ocular complications in children with various types of JIA in a single cohort of patients. PATIENTS Included are 172 children (35 boys and 137 girls) diagnosed with JIA. All underwent thorough initial ophthalmologic examination and were followed for a minimum of 3 years. RESULTS Of 172 children with JIA, 152 (88.4%) pr...

Objectives To determine the prevalence of vitreomacular interface (VMI) disorders in patients with Behçet's uveitis and assess the relationship between VMI disorders and clinical characteristics. Materials and Methods The macular optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of 160 eyes of 96 patients with Behçet's uveitis who were being followed in the Uvea-Behçet's clinic were assessed retrospe...

Background: Behçet’s disease is a multisystem vasculitis of unknown origin. Standard treatment mainly comprises systemic immunosuppressive agents. Ocular involvement, mostly posterior uveitis with retinal vasculitis, leads to blindness in 20–50% of the involved eyes within 5 years. The efficacy of interferon alfa-2a was studied in patients with sight threatening posterior uveitis or retinal vas...

Definition Uveitis can be defined as an inflammatory process of the uveal tract. Clinically, the iris and ciliary body usually react together, while the choroid behaves somewhat independently. Uveitis is thus generally classified into two categories: anterior uveitis or iridocyclitis and posterior uveitis or choroiditis (1). The uveal tract is a highly vascularized and heavily pigmented structu...

PURPOSE To evaluate the outcome of cataract surgery in adult patients with uveitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, medical charts of patients with uveitis and matched control patients without uveitis who underwent cataract surgery at the Eye Clinic, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, between January 2005 and December 2009 were analyzed. RESULTS The study in...

PURPOSE This study evaluated the prevalence of ocular toxocariasis (OT) in patients with uveitis of unknown etiology who visited a tertiary hospital in South Korea and assessed the success of serum anti-Toxocara immunoglobulin G (IgG) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as a diagnostic test for OT. METHODS The records of consecutive patients with intraocular inflammation of unknown etio...