Ophthalmology

Rheumatology

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What is your approach to the workup for an underlying systemic condition in a patient presenting with retinal vasculitis?

1 Answer available

What is your approach to evaluation of underlying autoimmune disease in patients with bilateral scleromalacia?

1 Answer available

Would you consider use of belimumab in a patient with SLE with recurrent anterior uveitis who failed other treatment options?

Patient failed topical ocular therapies, methotrexate, azathioprine

2 Answers available

How do you diagnose and treat patients who develop uveitis while on bisphosphonate therapy for osteoporosis?

Are there specific features that suggest drug-induced uveitis versus de novo uveitis?

1 Answer available

How would you manage an active rheumatoid arthritis patient on suppressive antibiotic therapy for ocular HSV who has abnormal liver function tests?

1 Answer available

What do you use to treat uveitis refractory to conventional synthetic DMARDs and TNF inhibitors?

Are IL-17 or IL-23 inhibitors helpful?

5 Answers available

How would you treat uveitis in a patient with a history of cutaneous T cell lymphoma?

Patient was previously well controlled on methotrexate, which was discontinued during cancer treatment.

1 Answer available

Do you extrapolate from uveitis treatment pathways when managing other inflammatory eye conditions such as atypical serpiginous choroiditis?

2 Answers available

Are there any situations in which you would consider starting steroid-sparing agents at the outset for patients with scleritis without any evidence of systemic rheumatic disease?

2 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Ophthalmology, 2015-05

Efficacy and safety of intravenous secukinumab in noninfectious uveitis requiring steroid-sparing immunosuppressive therapy.

Retina,

LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF RITUXIMAB THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH NONINFECTIOUS POSTERIOR UVEITIS REFRACTORY TO CONVENTIONAL IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY.

Ophthalmic Res, 2018 Apr 10

Cyclophosphamide or Rituximab Treatment of Scleritis and Uveitis for Patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis.

Dev Ophthalmol, 2012 Apr 17

Rituximab for noninfectious uveitis.

Arthritis Rheumatol, 2019 Aug 12

Long-Term Outcome of Ustekinumab Therapy for Behçet's Disease.

American journal of ophthalmology, 2017-11

Primary (Month-6) Outcomes of the STOP-Uveitis Study: Evaluating the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Tocilizumab in Patients With Noninfectious Uveitis.

Curr Opin Rheumatol,

Retinal vasculitis.

Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2012-08

Belimumab in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: high disease activity predictors of response.

Lupus,

Hydroxychloroquine use predicts complete renal remission within 12 months among patients treated with mycophenolate mofetil therapy for membranous lupus nephritis.

Arthritis Rheumatol, 2020 Jan 07

Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels Predict Hydroxychloroquine Retinopathy.

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