1. Epidemiology of Uveitis in a Tertiary-care Referral Institute in North India.
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Dogra, Mohit, Singh, Ramandeep, Agarwal, Aniruddha, Sharma, Ashok, Singh, Simar Rajan, Gautam, Natasha, Yangzes, Sonam, Samanta, Ramanuj, Sharma, Manu, Aggarwal, Kanika, Sharma, Aman, Sharma, Kusum, Bansal, Reema, Gupta, Amod, and Gupta, Vishali
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UVEITIS ,EPIDEMIOLOGY ,ETIOLOGY of diseases ,TUBERCULOSIS - Abstract
Purpose: To report epidemiology of uveitis in a tertiary-care referral institute in North India.Methods: Hospital records of patients with uveitis between June 2011 and September 2014 were retrospectively analyzed.Results: Of the 1912 patients, 56.64% were males. Anterior uveitis (43.04%) was the most common manifestation followed by posterior uveitis (24.58%), panuveitis (16.21%), and intermediate uveitis (10.66%). Specific etiologies could be ascertained in 60.56%. Tuberculosis (22.9%) was the most common infectious and HLA-B27-associated uveitis (9.46%) among non-infectious causes.Conclusions: There is a trend towards a decrease in idiopathic etiologies of uveitis. Tuberculosis remains the most common infectious etiology in North India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2017
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