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Tuberculous Uveitis

In recent years, ocular involvement due to TB has re-emerged. Tuberculous uveitis is a readily treatable disease and the consequences of delay in either ocular or systemic diagnosis can be very serious for the patient. It is important to have a high index of suspicion of the diagnosis in patients wi...

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Autores principales: Abu El-Asrar, Ahmed M., Abouammoh, Marwan, Al-Mezaine, Hani S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20404986
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.58421
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author Abu El-Asrar, Ahmed M.
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description In recent years, ocular involvement due to TB has re-emerged. Tuberculous uveitis is a readily treatable disease and the consequences of delay in either ocular or systemic diagnosis can be very serious for the patient. It is important to have a high index of suspicion of the diagnosis in patients with unexplained chronic uveitis and this will be influenced by the socio-economic circumstances, family history, ethnic origin, and previous medical history of the patient. Treatment with antituberculous therapy combined with systemic corticosteroids resolves inflammation without recurrences after medical therapy.
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spelling pubmed-28556602010-04-19 Tuberculous Uveitis Abu El-Asrar, Ahmed M. Abouammoh, Marwan Al-Mezaine, Hani S. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Symposium - Uveitis Update In recent years, ocular involvement due to TB has re-emerged. Tuberculous uveitis is a readily treatable disease and the consequences of delay in either ocular or systemic diagnosis can be very serious for the patient. It is important to have a high index of suspicion of the diagnosis in patients with unexplained chronic uveitis and this will be influenced by the socio-economic circumstances, family history, ethnic origin, and previous medical history of the patient. Treatment with antituberculous therapy combined with systemic corticosteroids resolves inflammation without recurrences after medical therapy. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2855660/ /pubmed/20404986 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.58421 Text en © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abu El-Asrar, Ahmed M.
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title_short Tuberculous Uveitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20404986
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