cd8 deficiency is a rare primary immunodeficiency with low or absent peripheral cd8 cells which results from tap deficiency, zap 70 deficiency and cd8 α gene mutation. we report a 14 year old female who presented with a history of recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis, otitis, severe varicella, herpetic lesions of mouth, bilateral uveitis, and cataract formation since the age of 8 years. she had ...

purpose: to characterize keratic precipitate (kp) morphology in different forms of uveitis. methods: one hundred and twenty nine eyes of 93 patients with different forms of uveitis underwent confocal scan and the morphology of kps were determined. differences in kp morphologies among different uveitic groups were evaluated.  results: age ranged from 14 to 67 years (mean: 32.5±11.2) and 58 cases...

Objective: To report a case of bilateral anterior uveitis secondary to oral moxifloxacin. Methods: Case report. Results: A 54-year-old female presented bilateral anterior uveitis following a 10-day course of oral moxifloxacin. She developed a bilateral anterior uveitis associated with pigment dispersion syndrome and iris transillumination. Conclusions: Drug-induced uveitis is one of the causes ...

Two female patients with histories of cancer who showed cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) complications and bilateral anterior uveitis with hypopyon were examined. Both patients had suffered from COP and received intermitted systemic corticosteroid administration (SCA). The first patient, a 65-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer, showed bilateral uveitis with hypopyon. The topic...

Purpose To report a case of bilateral acute anterior uveitis in an adult female occurring following the administration of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). Observations A 44-year-old female patient was commenced on IVIG following presentation to hospital with upper limb neuropathic pain. Within two days, she developed bilateral red, painful photophobic eyes. Examination revealed bilateral ac...

OBJECTIVE To describe the etiology and outcome of patients with simultaneous-onset nongranulomatous bilateral acute anterior uveitis. METHODS The medical records of patients who presented to a single tertiary care center with simultaneous-onset nongranulomatous bilateral acute anterior uveitis between January 1990 and May 2010 were retrospectively reviewed; the clinical presentation, results of...

PURPOSE This study reports a case of bilateral rifabutin-associated uveitis in a child with a history of acute myeloid leukemia. METHODS We utilized a clinical case description and brief discussion. RESULTS A 17-year-old girl presented with acute bilateral anterior uveitis, a hypopyon in the left eye, and moderate bilateral vitritis. She had a history of acute myeloid leukemia status post-a...

BACKGROUND Typically juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)-associated uveitis (further referred as 'JIA-uveitis') has its onset in childhood, but some patients suffer its, sometimes visual threatening, complications or ongoing disease activity in adulthood. The objective of this study was to analyze uveitis activity, complications and visual prognosis in adulthood. METHODS In this multicenter s...

Purpose To report two new cases of presumed erlotinib-associated bilateral acute simultaneous-onset anterior uveitis effectively treated with topical steroids. Observations Two patients were referred to the uveitis clinic with bilateral acute simultaneous onset, anterior uveitis six weeks after starting the chemotherapeutic agent erlotinib. Frequent topical steroid were started and the inflam...

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily, often from little or no apparent cause. In this article, we present a patient suffering from OI, who had concomitant active Behçet’s Disease(BD)with repeated oro-genital ulcers, skin postular eruptions and severe recurrent bilateral uveitis. This patient, is, to our knowledge the first reported case in ...