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OCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND INFLAMMATION
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 11-16Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/09273940802491850
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Behcet disease; inflammation; ocular tuberculosis; uveitis epidemiology; Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
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- Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology
- Eye Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Administrator of the Eye Center, Najwa Tabbara
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Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to determine the causes of uveitis at the Eye Center in Saudi Arabia. Methods: A retrospective review. The causes of uveitis were analyzed according to various patient characteristics. Results: A total of 488 cases were encountered. The age range was 3 to 99 years (mean age: 38 years). The most common causes of uveitis included anterior uveitis 60%, panuveitis 24%, posterior uveitis 11%, and intermediate uveitis 6%. Conclusions: The authors found a high prevalence of acute anterior nongranulomatous uveitis. The most commonly encountered infectious uveitis included herpes virus, tuberculosis, and toxoplasmosis.
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