Ten Pearls in the Management of Uveitis
While the diagnosis and treatment of uveitis may seem like a daunting task to the beginner, there are some tips and tricks which help to identify specific uveitides and help in appropriate treatment. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, chances are, it is probably a duck. 1. Infectious vs Non infectious : It is crucial to make this differentiation as , even though certain features may be similar in both, the treatment vastly differs for these two entities. Certain clues in the history and clinical examination , in addition to the laboratory investigations will aid you in making this distinction. A recurrent nodular scleritis in a farmer with recent history of injury with vegetative matter is most likely infective.1 A focal necrotising retinits lesion adjacent to a chorioretinal scar with significant vitritis in a person who has close interaction with cats is ocular toxoplasmosis, the most common cause of infectious posterior uveitis.2 If patient gives hist
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