OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical features of ocular lesions in Behçet's disease in different countries. METHODS A descriptive questionnaire survey was performed. RESULTS 25 eye centres in 14 countries returned questionnaires on prevalent cases in 2006. Clinical data were analysed on 1,465 patients with ocular lesions. Recurrent oral aphthous ulcers were reported in 94.5%, skin lesions ...

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada's (VKH) disease has been reported to be rare in sub-Saharan Africa. Two Nigerians with the disease are presented in this report. The first patient, a 32-year-old pregnant Nigerian woman presented with a 1-month history of bilateral blurring of vision, persistent headache, and alopecia. Presenting visual acuity was 1 m counting fingers in both eyes. Examination revealed viti...

OBJECTIVE To determine the type and frequency of clinical features of Behçet's disease in a population of Italian patients. METHODS We retrospectively studied 137 Italian patients (76 males and 61 females, age at onset 29.6 +/- 12.2 [mean +/- SD] years) seen consecutively in nine different referral centers. The duration of follow-up at study entry was 10.9 +/- 8.2 years. Virtually all patient...

Purpose To report a case of profound hypotony maculopathy as a complication of single-agent glaucoma therapy in a patient with a history of panuveitis without previous filtering surgery. Observations A 70-year old Hispanic male with a history of resolved bilateral panuveitis, chronic angle closure glaucoma, and pars plana vitrectomy was started on topical timolol 0.5% daily in the left eye fo...

introduction : frosted branch angiitis(fba) is a panuveitis with sheating of all retinal vesssels. case presentation : herein we report an immunocompetent person who presented with fever, headache, atypical rash, and hazy vision. ophthalmoscopy of both eyes revealed perivascular sheathing with frosted branch angiitis pattern in veins, patchy retinal hemorrhages. aqueous pcr analysis turned posi...

The sympathetic ophthalmia is a granulomatous panuveitis that starts after ocular trauma. The prognosis is poor and depends of both early diagnosis and treatment. The authors describe one case of a patient with sympathetic ophthalmia using optical coherence tomography who was submitted to early treatment, and it suggests that the optical coherence tomography can corroborate as a ancillary metho...

BACKGROUND We are reporting a case of granulomatous panuveitis in the right eye following penetrating injury to the left eye. FINDINGS A 34-year-old female was diagnosed to have sympathetic ophthalmia on treatment with systemic steroids. Vision did not improve in spite of aggressive systemic steroid therapy. On examination, patient had large retinal pigment epithelial rip nasal to the disc wi...

We present a case of fulminant panuveitis following iris suture fixation of a posterior chamber intraocular lens. We hypothesize that the zonular dehiscence allowed the inflammatory cells in the anterior compartment to gain access to the posterior segment mimicking endophthalmitis or toxic anterior segment syndrome. Also certain bulky lens designs, like the current Rayner hydrophilic acrylic le...

Lyme disease is a tick-borne multisystemic disease with multiple clinical presentations including rheumatological conditions. We present a 12 year old girl complaining of fever, arthralgia and redness in her eyes which was found to be the result of panuveitis. Borrelia antibodies were positive and she received 21-day treatment regimen with Ceftriaxon with resolution of all complaints at the end...

Early diagnosis of pyomyositis using clinic-based ultrasonography in a patient receiving infliximab therapy for Behc¸et's disease SIR, Behc¸et's disease is a chronic, relapsing inflamma-tory disorder that causes ocular inflammation in up to 70% of patients [1, 2]. Despite intensive immunosup-pressive therapy, relapsing ocular inflammation can lead to permanent loss of vision [2]. Infliximab, a ...