Please select the option that best describes you:
Topics:
Internal Medicine • Rheumatology • Spondyloarthritis • General Rheumatology • Uveitis • Inflammatory eye disorders • Ophthalmology • Uveitis and Ocular Immunology
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.
Answer from: at Community Practice
Although the majority of patients with HLA B27-associated recurrent, acute anterior uveitis have some evidence for spondyloarthropathy, this disease does occur sometimes with clinical disease only in the eye. The disease is not usually chronic (i.e.lasting longer than 3 months) but it is typically e...
Sign in or Register to read more