Profile of patients with uveitis referred to a multidisciplinary unit in northern Spain

Abstract Objective To describe the main characteristics of a cohort of patients with uveitis referred to a multidisciplinary unit in northern Spain. Material and methods Retrospective analysis of clinical records of patients evaluated in the Multidisciplinary Unit of the Navarra Hospital Complex fro...

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Published in:Archivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmología (English ed.) 2017-05, Vol.92 (5), p.202-209
Main Authors: Fanlo, P, Heras, H, Pérez, D, Tiberio, G, Espinosa, G, Adan, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Epidemiology
Epidemiología
Etiology
Etiología
HLA B27
Multidisciplinary unit
Ophthalmology
Unidad multidisciplinar
Uveitis
Uveítis
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Summary:Abstract Objective To describe the main characteristics of a cohort of patients with uveitis referred to a multidisciplinary unit in northern Spain. Material and methods Retrospective analysis of clinical records of patients evaluated in the Multidisciplinary Unit of the Navarra Hospital Complex from the period January 2010 until March 2015. An analysis was performed on the demographic characteristics, origin, types of uveitis, laterality, and etiology. The present series was also compared with 2 previous series from Castilla y León and Barcelona. Results A total of 500 patients were identified, with a mean age of 47.9 ± 16.4 years, with 50% women. The most frequent type of uveitis was anterior uveitis (65.4%), followed by posterior uveitis (17.6%), panuveitis (15.2%), and intermediate uveitis (1.8%). The origin was unclassifiable in 31.2%, followed by non-infectious systemic disease in 29.2%. Ankylosing spondylitis was the most frequent cause in 10.8% of patients, followed by herpes infection in 9.2%, and toxoplasmosis in 7.8%, respectively. Compared with the 2 other cohorts, the present cohort showed a higher proportion of unilateral anterior uveitis. Furthermore, the patients from the Navarra series had a higher prevalence of unilateral and idiopathic uveitis compared to the series from Barcelona. Conclusions The main characteristics of the present cohort of patients with uveitis are similar to those of patients from other regions of our country. Unilateral anterior uveitis and idiopathic uveitis were the most frequent in our series.
ISSN:2173-5794
2173-5794
DOI:10.1016/j.oftale.2016.10.005