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Autoimmune Uveitis and It's Treatment

This section is designed to help you search the medical literature using the resources of the National Library of Medicine.  Use the links below, or create your own searches by going to www.PubMed.gov. 

Pars planitis is a treatable condition that may require the use of systemic immunosuppression medication and/or surgery to halt it's progression. Untreated, 20% of patients with pars planitis will have significant vision loss, and some will become blind.  The treatment algorithm for pars planitis may be found at this link.

A new paradigm for treating autoimmune-mediated ocular inflammation has been pioneered by C. Stephen Foster, M.D. at Harvard Medical School and the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation.  This treatment paradigm is based on a limited tolerance to corticosteroid use and a more proactive approach to corticosteroid-sparing immunomodulatory therapy in an effort to induce a durable remission of ocular inflammatory disease off all corticosteroids.

• Introduction to Ocular Autoimmune Disease

• Treatment of Ocular Inflammation in Children

• Pars Planitis: A Syndrome of Unknown Etiology or Multiple Etiologies?

• Recommended Treatment for Pars Planitis

• Intermediate Uveitis (another name for Pars Planitis)

• Multiple Sclerosis and Uveitis

• Intraocular inflammation in autoimmune disease

• Autoimmune uveitis

• Review of immunosuppressive drug therapy in uveitis

• Treatment and Prevention of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis

• Lit search: Pars Planitis

• Lit search: Uveitis (includes pars planitis)

• Lit search: Pediatric uveitis

• Review article: Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy in Uveitis

• Lit search: Immunomodulatory treatment (IMT)
   

• Lit search: Biologics

• Lit search: Enbrel (this med is not recommended for treatment of uveitis)

• Lit search: Methotrexate

• Lit search: CellCept

• Lit search: Chlorambucil

• Lit search: Corticosteroids

• Lit search: Cyclophosphamide

• Lit search: Cyclosporine  

• Lit search: Monoclonal antibody

• Lit search: Steroid Implant for posterior uveitis

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• Electronic Articles 

• Recent journal publications

Website updated: 03/05/2008