Ophthalmology

Uveitis

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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What is your approach to immunosuppression in patients with recurrent peripheral ulcerative keratitis or marginal keratitis who have active disease despite steroid therapy and no current evidence of rheumatologic disease?

Is the approach different from uveitis immunosuppression?

4 Answers available

What is your approach to evaluation of underlying autoimmune disease in patients with bilateral scleromalacia?

1 Answer available

How do you diagnose and treat patients who develop uveitis while on bisphosphonate therapy for osteoporosis?

Are there specific features that suggest drug-induced uveitis versus de novo uveitis?

1 Answer available

What do you use to treat uveitis refractory to conventional synthetic DMARDs and TNF inhibitors?

Are IL-17 or IL-23 inhibitors helpful?

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How would you treat uveitis in a patient with a history of cutaneous T cell lymphoma?

Patient was previously well controlled on methotrexate, which was discontinued during cancer treatment.

1 Answer available

Do you extrapolate from uveitis treatment pathways when managing other inflammatory eye conditions such as atypical serpiginous choroiditis?

2 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Ophthalmology, 2015-05

Efficacy and safety of intravenous secukinumab in noninfectious uveitis requiring steroid-sparing immunosuppressive therapy.

Retina,

LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF RITUXIMAB THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH NONINFECTIOUS POSTERIOR UVEITIS REFRACTORY TO CONVENTIONAL IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY.

Ophthalmic Res, 2018 Apr 10

Cyclophosphamide or Rituximab Treatment of Scleritis and Uveitis for Patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis.

Dev Ophthalmol, 2012 Apr 17

Rituximab for noninfectious uveitis.

Arthritis Rheumatol, 2019 Aug 12

Long-Term Outcome of Ustekinumab Therapy for Behçet's Disease.

American journal of ophthalmology, 2017-11

Primary (Month-6) Outcomes of the STOP-Uveitis Study: Evaluating the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Tocilizumab in Patients With Noninfectious Uveitis.

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