Uveitis in the Aging Eye: Incidence, Patterns, and Differential Diagnosis

Uveitis is a vision threatening inflammation of the eye that carries considerable morbidity. It is responsible for 10% of legal blindness in the United States and up to 25% in the developing world. Uveitis in patients more than 60 years of age is less common. The aging body has a changing response o...

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Autores principales: Abdulaal, Marwan R., Abiad, Bachir H., Hamam, Rola N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4452188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26090218
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/509456
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description Uveitis is a vision threatening inflammation of the eye that carries considerable morbidity. It is responsible for 10% of legal blindness in the United States and up to 25% in the developing world. Uveitis in patients more than 60 years of age is less common. The aging body has a changing response of the immune system, which might reflect a different pattern of uveitis in the elderly population. In this paper we review the incidence and patterns of uveitis in the elderly as reported in the literature and discuss changes with time. We also delineate a thorough differential diagnosis of de novo uveitis in the elderly.
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spelling pubmed-44521882015-06-18 Uveitis in the Aging Eye: Incidence, Patterns, and Differential Diagnosis Abdulaal, Marwan R. Abiad, Bachir H. Hamam, Rola N. J Ophthalmol Review Article Uveitis is a vision threatening inflammation of the eye that carries considerable morbidity. It is responsible for 10% of legal blindness in the United States and up to 25% in the developing world. Uveitis in patients more than 60 years of age is less common. The aging body has a changing response of the immune system, which might reflect a different pattern of uveitis in the elderly population. In this paper we review the incidence and patterns of uveitis in the elderly as reported in the literature and discuss changes with time. We also delineate a thorough differential diagnosis of de novo uveitis in the elderly. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4452188/ /pubmed/26090218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/509456 Text en Copyright © 2015 Marwan R. Abdulaal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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