Imaging in Uveitis

Oct 28, 2016 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Imaging in Uveitis

Fig. 8.1 (Patient # 1). Both hands and feet of a patient with chronic VKH showing vitiligo Fig. 8.2 (Patient # 1). External eye photograph right eye showing poliosis. Left…

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White Dot Syndromes

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Age group (40–60 years) Serpiginous choroiditis Birdshot retinochoroidopathy Age group (30–40 years) APMPPE MEWDS PIC MCP Unilateral MEWDS Bilateral APMPPE Birdshot retinochoroidopathy PIC MCP Small lesions (25–100 um) PIC, MEWDS,…

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Intraocular Tuberculosis

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Global goals, targets, and indicators for TB control 1 Millennium Development Goals set for 2015 Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases Target 6c: Halt and begin to reverse…

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Serpiginous Choroiditis

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Fig. 17.1 Left eye fundus photograph showing multifocal serpiginoid lesions of presumed tubercular uveitis, involving the posterior pole as well as the periphery. The lesions are noncontiguous to the optic…

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Viral Anterior Uveitis

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Fig. 2.1 Slit lamp photograph of an eye with herpes simplex virus acute anterior uveitis with granulomatous keratic precipitates and sector iridoplegia, which subsequently developed sector atrophy Fig. 2.2 Slit…

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Intermediate Uveitis

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Fig. 11.1 Snowball opacities Epidemiology Occurrence of intermediate uveitis varies worldwide. The prevalence of intermediate uveitis varies in different populations and accounts for 2–31 % of all uveitis presenting to…

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Management of Inflammatory CNV

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S.no First author Journal/year Type of study Disease No Location Method of treatment Assessment of response Anatomical outcome Visual outcome Follow up Remarks 1 Nielsen [14] Retina-2012 Retrospective POHS 54…

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Advances in Ocular Toxoplasmosis

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Fig. 1.1 Active primary retinal T. gondii lesion on the outside border of the vascular arcades in a 28-year-old female patient proven by intraocular fluid analysis. There is a mild…

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Pediatric Uveitis

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Infectious Congenital Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii) Rubella virus Cytomegalovirus Herpes simplex virus Syphilis (Treponema pallidum) Acquired Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii) Toxocariasis (Toxocara canis) Varicella zoster virus Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium…

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Immunosuppressives in Uveitis and Ocular Inflammation

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Ocular inflammatory indications for immunosuppressive therapy “Corticosteroid-sparing” therapy: when disease can be controlled with corticosteroids (usually oral, sometimes topical), but expected toxicity is unacceptably high at the dose required to…

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