Therapy Insight: Scleritis And Its Relationship To Systemic Autoimmune Disease Justine R Smith; Friederike Mackensen; James T Rosenbaum Disclosures Nat Clin Pract Rheumatol. 2007;3 (4):219-226. 0 ...

The term scleritis describes a chronic inflammation that involves the outermost coat and skeleton of the eye. Disease can be isolated to the eye, but in up to half of affected individuals it occurs in ...

Scleritis can occur as a condition confined to the eye or it might be associated with a systemic, immune-mediated disease; uncommonly, scleritis might be caused by an infection or drug reaction ...

Pathogenic Mechanisms Knowledge of the pathogenic mechanisms that underlie scleritis is limited. Although an animal model of necrotizing scleritis was described over 30 years ago -- in which disease ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA — Kelly Thomas’ visit with eye specialist Donnie Franklin are anything but usual. It’s not every day, ...

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Posterior scleritis rarely presents as a large 'intraocular tumour' and continues to be a challenge in diagnosis and management. We present the case of a 66-year-old male with no known rheumatic ...

The McAdam’s diagnostic criteria require meeting three out of six of the following: recurrent chondritis of both auricles, nonerosive inflammatory polyarthritis, chondritis of nasal cartilages, ocular ...

The long-term dryness of the eye can often lead to scarring, ulceration, infection, and even perforation of the cornea. Scleritis is another eye complication caused by the inflammation of the sclera ...

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Everything from the banal (subconjunctival hemorrhages, viral conjunctivitis) to the beastly (scleritis, Acanthamoeba).