Etiology of Pediatric Uveitis in a Tertiary Pediatric Eye Hospital in Egypt.
Ocul Immunol Inflamm
; 31(10): 1978-1983, 2023 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To report the causes of childhood-onset uveitis in a tertiary pediatric ophthalmology hospital in Egypt.METHODS:
Retrospective study of the medical records of all uveitis patients following up at a tertiary pediatric ophthalmology hospital in Egypt from January 2017 to December 2020.RESULTS:
The present study included 388 patients. The most common anatomical category was intermediate uveitis (30.4%), and around half of these children had pars planitis. This was followed by panuveitis (25.5%), posterior uveitis (23.5%), and anterior uveitis (20.6%), in decreasing frequency. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, toxoplasmosis, and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome were the most common causes of anterior uveitis, posterior uveitis, and panuveitis respectively. Cataract (40.5%), glaucoma (33.8%), and cystoid macular edema (31.6%) were the most frequent ocular complications.CONCLUSION:
The present report provides the relative prevalence of the different anatomical types of uveitis, as well as their main causes in a cohort of Egyptian patients with childhood-onset uveitis.Palabras clave
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Asunto principal:
Uveítis
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Panuveítis
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Uveítis Posterior
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Uveítis Anterior
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Child
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Humans
País como asunto:
Africa
Idioma:
En
Año:
2023
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Article