A 29-year-old woman was referred to Tufts Medical Center for undifferentiated bilateral anterior and intermediate uveitis.The ...

What Are Treatments for Uveitis? Uveitis is the inflammation of your uvea — the middle layer of your eye. It can happen for many reasons, but up to 70% of cases have unknown causes. It can affect a ...

Uveitis is a broad term for many problems with your eye. What they have in common is eye inflammation and swelling that can damage eye tissues. That damage can lead to poor vision or blindness. About ...

Iritis, also called anterior uveitis, is inflammation of the colored part of your eye called the iris. It can also cause inflammation in the space between your iris and the outer layer of your eye ...

Patients with thyroid disease have increased risk for uveitis, suggesting the two diseases may share a common autoimmune pathophysiology, researchers found. Compared with the general population, ...

Uveitis is a condition that occurs in the uvea, or the middle area of the eye. Because the uvea contains the blood vessels that supply nutrients to the eye, any form of uveitis may be serious and may ...

The study population included 13 children (mean age 14±2.4 years; 22 eyes) and 16 adults (mean age 30±8.8 years; 27 eyes) with uveitis in BD diagnosed between 1997 and 2007. Because BD is ...

Joy Ross says it was love at first touch. Ross, who is now blind, likes to tease that she met her husband, George, on a blind date. At the end of the night, he took her hands in his. She had little ...

Leukemia can lead to uveitis by causing problems with the blood or if cancer cells enter the eye. Leukemia may also cause uveitis by increasing pressure inside the skull. For these reasons, uveitis ...

Background A 36-year-old male presented with bilateral, anterior, chronic uveitis, with cystoid macular edema. Decimal visual acuity was 0.25 in the right eye and 0.20 in the left eye. Ankylosing ...

Uveitis is a swelling of the middle layer of the eye, called the uvea. Treatments typically include steroid eye drops, oral steroids, and/or antibiotics. Uveitis may occur from both infectious and non ...