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Managing Cataract in Children with Uveitis : A Challenge Treating the Fire

Managing Cataract in Children with Uveitis : A Challenge

Cataract remains the most frequent vision-threatening complication of childhood uveitis. In the developing visual system, lens opacification is not merely a...

Neovascularization in Ocular Inflammation Patterns & Presentations

Neovascularization in Ocular Inflammation

Neovascularization, the pathological formation of new blood vessels, is a fundamental biological response to tissue injury, ischaemia, inflammation, and tumour...

Clinical Approach to a Case of Uveitis Patterns & Presentations

Clinical Approach to a Case of Uveitis

CLASSIFICATION OF UVEITIS Proper classification of uveitic entities is essential to avoid confusion and misinterpretation among ophthalmologists.

VEXAS Syndrome: Every Ophthalmologist Must Know Patterns & Presentations

VEXAS Syndrome: Every Ophthalmologist Must Know

In 2020, a landmark paper in the New England Journal of Medicine described 25 men with severe, treatment-resistant inflammation and a previously unrecognised...

Ocular Immune Privilege & Defense Building Blocks

Ocular Immune Privilege & Defense

Think of the immune system as an army whose primary role is to defend the body against invading enemies.

Decoding Eye Pain For the Residents Patterns & Presentations

Decoding Eye Pain For the Residents

Eye pain is one of the most alarming symptoms a patient can present with. It can range from a minor irritation to a sign of a sight-threatening or even...

Complications of Uveitis Patterns & Presentations

Complications of Uveitis

COMPLICATIONS OF UVEITIS Band keratopathy Long-standing chronic iridocyclitis or intraocular inflammation, especially in children, can result in deposition of...

Antinuclear Antibodies in Uveitis Decoding the Labs

Antinuclear Antibodies in Uveitis

Antinuclear antibodies (ANA) are autoantibodies directed against nuclear, nucleolar, or perinuclear antigens, serving as hallmark markers for various...

Systemic Manifestations of Behcet’s Disease in Children Patterns & Presentations

Systemic Manifestations of Behcet’s Disease in Children

When Family History Speaks Loudly A positive family history of Behçet's disease is significantly more frequent in pediatric-onset disease compared to...

Basics of Herpes Viruses for the Ophthalmologists

There are 219 virus species are known to infect humans. The first human virus identified was yellow fever virus in 1901, following earlier discoveries of...

Periocular Corticosteroid Treating the Fire

Periocular Corticosteroid

Periocular literally means “around the eye.” In clinical practice, periocular delivery refers to administering medication into the tissues surrounding the...

From Bloodletting to Breakthroughs: How We Fought Uveitis

Ancient Mysteries Imagine you are suffering from red, painful eyes and you decide to consult a well-known doctor in your neighbourhood.

Systemic Corticosteroid Treating the Fire

Systemic Corticosteroid

Prednisolone, a cornerstone glucocorticoid in modern medicine, evolved from mid-20th-century breakthroughs in adrenal steroid research that transformed the...

The Cup of Trust: A Lesson from Alexander the Great

333 BCE. Alexander’s army was passing through Cicilia (Modern day Turkey). Alexander the Great decided to take a bath in the icy water of the river Cidnus (Now...

Anatomy of Uveal Tract: Ciliary body Building Blocks

Anatomy of Uveal Tract: Ciliary body

The ciliary body is the middle part of the uveal tract. It is a ring-shaped (slightly eccentric) structure that projects posteriorly from the scleral spur,...

Blood–Ocular Barriers Building Blocks

Blood–Ocular Barriers

The eye requires a highly regulated internal environment to function normally. Neuronal tissues such as the retina are extremely sensitive to fluctuations in...

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