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Eiman Abd El Latif,1 Asaad Nooreldin,2 Mohammed Shikhoun Ahmed,3 Mohamed Elmoddather,2 Wael El Gendy4 1Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt; 2Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt; 3Department of Ophthalmology, Sohag Teaching Hospital, Sohag, Egypt; 4Department of Ophthalmology, Memorial Institute for Ophthalmic Research (MIOR), Giza, EgyptCorrespondence: Eiman Abd El Latif 5 Soliman Mahmoud Street, Cleopatra 12311, Alexandria, EgyptTel +211 4867-2963Email iman2omar@gmail.comPurpose: To report the causes of uveitis in a referral ocular inflammation clinic in Upper Egypt.Methods: Retrospective medical chart review of all uveitis cases visiting a referral uveitis clinic during the period between January 2015 and January 2020.Results: A total of 982 patients were included. Uveitis was bilateral in 51.7% of the patients. Anterior uveitis was the most common type, followed by posterior uveitis, affecting 34.4% and 25.6% of the study cohort, respectively. About one-third of our patients were beneath the age of 18, and among that group, no specific etiology of uveitis could be determined in about a quarter of the patients by the end of the study period, and juvenile idiopathic arthritis was the most common disease entity.Conclusion: In conclusion, the present report attempted to illustrate the most common causes of uveitis in Upper Egypt. Tuberculosis followed by sarcoidosis were the two leading causes of uveitis in our group of patients.Keywords: Egypt, uveitis, tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, idiopathic

Eiman Abd El Latif,1 Marwa Abdel Kader Fouly Galal,2 Mohamed A Tawfik,3 Mohamed Elmoddather,4 Asaad Nooreldin,4 Hassan Shamselden Yousef4 1Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt; 2Department of Ophthalmology, Research Institute of Ophthalmology, Cairo, Egypt; 3Memorial Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Cairo, Egypt; 4Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, EgyptCorrespondence: Eiman Abd El LatifDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, 5 Soliman Mahmoud Street, Cleopatra, Alexandria 12311, EgyptTel +20 211 4867-2963Email iman2omar@gmail.comPurpose: To report the clinical experience of uveitis associated with Behçet’s disease in a cohort of Egyptian patients.Methods: The present study is a retrospective analysis of the medical charts of patients with Behçet’s disease, who were referred to a tertiary eye care center in Egypt between June 2010 and June 2018.Results: The current study included 1301 eyes of 681 patients with Behçet’s disease. The mean age of the patients at the time of referral was 27.2 ± 3.9 years. Panuveitis was the most common presentation. About 28% of all involved eyes had a final visual acuity < 20/200, by the last follow-up visit.Conclusion: Behçet’s disease is an important cause of uveitis in Egypt, and despite the fact that the prognosis of Behçet’s uveitis has globally improved in recent years, the visual outcome in Egypt is still not favorable especially in case of delayed referral to tertiary centers.Keywords: Egypt, uveitis, Behçet’s disease, Alexandria, hypopyon

Eiman Abd El Latif,1 Ahmed Shawkat Abdelhalim2 1Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt; 2Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, EgyptCorrespondence: Eiman Abd El LatifDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, 5 Soliman Mahmoud Street, Cleopatra, Alexandria 12311, EgyptTel +20 211 4867-2963Email iman2omar@gmail.comPurpose: To describe the clinical profile of patients with HLA-B27-associated uveitis at 2 Egyptian tertiary eye centers.Methods: A retrospective study reviewing the medical records of all patients with HLA-B27-associated uveitis served at 2 uveitis referral clinics in Egypt between January 2010 and June 2018.Results: The study included a total of 554 patients. Anterior uveitis was the most common type. Ankylosing spondylitis was an important systemic comorbidity in the present study, affecting 27.4% of our patients. Cataract was the most frequent ocular complication. By the conclusion of the study, 6.1% of the affected eyes had a BSCVA poorer than 20/200.Conclusion: The clinical profile of HLA-B27-associated uveitis in our cohort of Egyptian patients is similar to that reported from other regions of the world. In our study, a relatively high rate of cataract was observed.Keywords: Egypt, uveitis, HLA-B27, epidemiology, hypopyon