UVEITIS

INFLAMMATION OF THE
UVEAL TRACT
WHERE AND WHAT IS UVEAL TRACT?

-iris
-cilliary body
-choroid
 IRIS
THE COLORED (PIGMENTED )PART OF OUR EYE

WHAT DOES IT DO?

SEPARATES AC TO PC
DIAGHPRAGM 
DILATE  M.DILATOR PUPILLAE
(PARASIMPATIC)
CONSTRICT M . SPHINGTER PUPILLAE
(N.3)
 CILLIARY BODY
EXPANSION OF IRIS TO POSTEIOR PART OF THE
EYE

WHAT DOES IT DO?

ACOMMODATION  M.CILLIARIS
PRODUCE AQUOS
 CHOROID
LAYER BETWEEN RETINA AND SCLERA, EXTENDING
FORM ORA SERATA TOWARDS OPTIC NERVE

WHAT DOES IT DO?

VASCULAR PART OF THE ORGAN, CARRIES
BLOOD AND NUTRIENT
 EACH PART OF THE TRACT
CAN INFLAMED
DIFFERENTLY
THE SIMILARITIES :
1. CAUSES : Exogenous, Infection, endogen, alergic,
AUTOIMUN
2. TYPE : GRANULOMATOUS VS NON
GRANULOMATOUS
3. THERAPY : CORTICOSTEROID, SYMPTOMATIC,
TREAT THE CAUSE
 ANTERIOR UVEITIS
=IRIDOCYCLYTIS
- RED EYE (PCI + PCVI) - MYOTIC PUPIL
- PAIN/TENDERNESS - FLARE ON AC
- PHOTOPHOBIA

- BLURRY VISION

- N/V (POSSIBLE )

- HEADACHE
 TREATMENT AND PROGNOSIS

- ATROPIN ed 1% Beware of
- STEROID SYSTEMIC - Cataract
AND TOPICAL
- Glaucoma
- FIND CAUSE 
TREAT IT. - Synechia
- PAIN KILLER prn (seclusio/oclusio)

PROGNOSIS : treatable. w/o complication  ad bonam

 Intermediate uveitis = Pars
planitis
- RED EYE (PCI + PCVI)

- PAIN/TENDERNESS

- FLOATERS

- BLURRY VISION
 POSTERIOR UVEITIS

-TOXOPLASMOSIS/CARIASIS
-CANDIDIASIS
-ARN
- CMV RETINITIS
 THINK IMMUNOCOMPROMISE
 PANUVEITIS

SARCOIDOSIS
TUBERCULOSIS
VKH
 OTHER UVEITIS

SIMPATHETIC OPHTHALMIA
LENS INDUCED
BEHCET DISEASE
VKH
 TAKE HOME POINT

DIFFERENTIATE UVEITIS AND

OTHER RED EYE DISEASE
THINK SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS
WHEN UVEITIS IS SUSPECTED,
START ORAL
CORTOCOSTEROID AND
REFER
Juvenile RA, chronic iridocyclitis
Toxoplasma
Acut tuberculous uveitis with hypopion