1. Etiology of Pediatric Uveitis in a Tertiary Pediatric Eye Hospital in Egypt.
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Abd El Latif, Eiman, Mousa, Rasha, Tawfeeq Mahdi, Mohammed, Mahmoud Amin, Ahmed, Mohammed Ahmed Ali, Mahmoud, Abdelhamid, Nour Eldin, Elmoddather, Mohamed, Shamselden Yousef, Hassan, Hafez, Ehab Hafez Gouda, Salem, Sameh Galal Taher, and Soliman, Ashraf Hassan
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IRIDOCYCLITIS ,CHILDREN'S hospitals ,UVEITIS ,JUVENILE idiopathic arthritis ,ETIOLOGY of diseases ,PEDIATRIC ophthalmology - Abstract
To report the causes of childhood-onset uveitis in a tertiary pediatric ophthalmology hospital in Egypt. Retrospective study of the medical records of all uveitis patients following up at a tertiary pediatric ophthalmology hospital in Egypt from January 2017 to December 2020. The present study included 388 patients. The most common anatomical category was intermediate uveitis (30.4%), and around half of these children had pars planitis. This was followed by panuveitis (25.5%), posterior uveitis (23.5%), and anterior uveitis (20.6%), in decreasing frequency. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, toxoplasmosis, and Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome were the most common causes of anterior uveitis, posterior uveitis, and panuveitis respectively. Cataract (40.5%), glaucoma (33.8%), and cystoid macular edema (31.6%) were the most frequent ocular complications. The present report provides the relative prevalence of the different anatomical types of uveitis, as well as their main causes in a cohort of Egyptian patients with childhood-onset uveitis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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