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OCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND INFLAMMATION
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 732-746Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/09273948.2016.1249376
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Classification; epidemiology; OASIS; ocular inflammation; uveitis
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Purpose: To report the epidemiology and classification of ocular inflammation at a tertiary eye care center in Singapore.Methods: Retrospective cohort study of the clinical records of consecutive new cases from the Ocular Autoimmune Systemic Inflammatory Infectious Study (OASIS) database from 2004-2015.Results: A total of 2200 patients were studied from the OASIS database. The most common anatomic diagnosis was anterior uveitis (55.9%), posterior uveitis (17.5%), panuveitis (9.6%), and intermediate uveitis (4.7%). In addition, scleritis (6.1%), keratouveitis (2.8%), retinal vasculitis (2.2%), and episcleritis (1.2%) were observed. Etiology was established in 65.1%, with 35.2% of patients associated with non-infectious etiologies. The most common etiologies found were presumed tuberculosis (7.2%), followed by cytomegalovirus infection (6.9%), herpetic infection (6.3%), HLA-B27-associated anterior uveitis (4.2%), and ankylosing spondylitis (3.8%).Conclusions: The pattern of ocular inflammation in Singapore has similarities with both Western and Asian populations. Anterior uveitis was the most common, with non-infectious etiologies being slightly more common than infectious etiologies.
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