Surgical management in patient with uveitis

Abstract

Surgery in the management of uveitis can be divided based on indication: either for therapeutic or can be for diagnostic purposes or to manage complications. The commonest indications include: Visual rehabilitation: surgery for removal of cataract, band keratopathy, corneal scars, pupillary membranes, removal of dense vitreous membranes, management of complications: anti-glaucoma surgery, vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment and chronic hypotony and diagnostic: aqueous tap, vitreous biopsy, tissue biopsy (iris, choroid). In this review, we shall describe the surgical technique for visual rehabilitation and for management of complications.

Keywords

• Algorithmic approach
• differential diagnosis
• naming and meshing
• uveitis
• Uveitis; imaging; fluorescein angiography; optical coherence tomography
• Angiotensin converting enzyme
• antitoxoplasma antibody
• laboratory test
• tuberculin test
• Corticosteroids
• immunosuppressives
• medical management
• uveitis
• Cataract surgery in uveitis
• glaucoma surgery in uveitis
• vitrectomy in uveitis