Uveitis

The Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology will be held April 4-5 in Seville, Spain.

KOLOA, Hawaii — Assessing fellow eye status, age and history of uveitis are helpful ways to determine which patients are most likely to benefit from treatment with FDA-approved drugs for geographic atrophy, according to a speaker.

A 53-year-old woman presented to an outside provider with 1 day of bilateral floaters and “smoke/foggy” vision.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Uveitis Subspecialty Day at the AAO meeting, Judy L. Chen, MD, of the Stein Eye Institute and Doheny Eye Center at UCLA, shares pearls on uveitic glaucoma.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Dilraj Grewal, MD, FASRS, of Duke Eye Center shares real-world data on suprachoroidal triamcinolone acetonide for noninfectious uveitis with macular edema.

WASHINGTON — Dactylitis, psoriasis and other non-musculoskeletal manifestations of psoriatic arthritis can be accurately monitored through patient self-reporting, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2024.

A 92-year-old Asian man was seen in the uveitis ophthalmology clinic due to 2 weeks of bilateral eye injection, pain, tearing and photosensitivity. He denied flashes, floaters, diplopia or metamorphopsia.

Adalimumab combined with corticosteroids led to a significantly lower rate of relapse in Behçet’s disease uveitis vs. cyclosporine alongside corticosteroids, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Euretina congress, Bart Leroy, MD, PhD, speaks about the overlapping features of uveitis and inherited retinal dystrophies.

Prevent Blindness has declared Sept. 16 to 22 as Inflammatory Eye Disease Awareness Week and is offering free educational resources and expert videos for the public and eye care providers.