Primary Care

Uveitis and Ocular Immunology

Questions discussed in this category

In a patient with isolated HLA B27+ anterior uveitis, how long would you continue immunosuppressive therapy?

The patient has no extraocular features of a spondyloarthropathy and is on methotrexate. No active eye disease for past 1 year.

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How do you approach the management of recurrent episcleritis in a patient with RA that is otherwise well-controlled?

No active joint disease, patient on Hydroxychloroquine and Cimzia. Normal ESR/CRP.

1 Answer available

How would you approach a patient who has well controlled SLE on HCQ but develops cotton wool spots on routine ophthalmologic screening?

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Papers discussed in this category

BMC Rheumatol, 2021 Oct 01

Retinopathy in newly-diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus: should we screen for ocular involvement?

Clin Ophthalmol, 2011 Oct 04

Isolated cotton-wool spots of unknown etiology: management and sequential spectral domain optical coherence tomography documentation.

Lancet (London, England), 2025 Jan 25

Stopping of adalimumab in juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis (ADJUST): a multicentre, double-masked, randomised controlled trial.

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