BACKGROUND Ocular syphilis is reemerging as an important cause of uveitis in the new era of common co-infection with HIV. This study will reveal the clinical and laboratory characteristics in the group of individuals co-infected with ocular syphilis and HIV compared with HIV-negative individuals. In this retrospective observational case series, medical records of patients diagnosed with ocular ...

PURPOSE To ascertain resource use, costs and risk of workforce absence in non-infectious uveitis cases versus matched controls. METHODS In a retrospective claims analysis of employees in the United States, prevalent (N = 705) and incident (N = 776) cases 18-64 years old with ≥2 diagnoses of non-infectious intermediate, posterior or panuveitis were matched 1:1 to controls without uveitis. Pers...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to describe a system for color photograph evaluation in uveitis and report baseline morphologic findings for the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial. Four-hundred seventy-nine eyes of 255 subjects with intermediate, posterior, and panuveitis had stereoscopic color fundus photographs obtained by certified photographers and evaluated by cer...

BACKGROUND Ocular tuberculosis (TB) can affect nearly every ocular tissue, leading to a variety of vision-threatening clinical manifestations. The goal of this study is to estimate the degree, duration, and causes of visual impairment in eyes affected by ocular TB. RESULTS This was a retrospective study of patients diagnosed as ocular TB based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Mycobacter...

A 72-year-old Chinese male presented with unilateral left eye panuveitis, then diagnosed as bilateral T-cell primary vitreoretinal lymphoma (T-PVRL) through chorioretinal biopsy and immunohistochemistry. No CNS nor systemic involvement was found at diagnosis. Despite initiating intravenous intrathecal chemotherapy intravitreal methotrexate, the disease eventually spread to fellow subsequent rec...

The diagnostic value of toxoplasma serology in ocular disease was evaluated in the following groups of patients: (I) uveitis cases of various causes (n = 291); (II) consecutive posterior and panuveitis patients (n = 60); (III) patients with definite congenital and ocular toxoplasmosis (n = 8); (IV) cases of clinical ocular toxoplasmosis (n = 25); and control patients with uveitis of non-toxopla...

AIM To investigate the causes and clinical characteristics of uveitis in patients presenting to a specialized eye hospital in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS The clinical records of 1028 uveitis patients admitted between 1990 and 2010 were retrospectively reviewed. Age at first presentation, sex, laterality, etiology, associated systemic disease, clinical presentation, and course of the disease...

Background: Ocular involvement is a relatively frequent and potentially severe complication of sarcoidosis. Oral corticosteroids (OCS) are the first-line treatment. Conventional immunosuppressive agents (cIS) biological therapy (BT) can be used in refractory cases (1-5). Objectives: To evaluate treatment visual outcomes cohort patients diagnosed with ocular Methods: Study large (n=384) all cons...