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The course of retinal vasculitis Amro Ali,1 Jennifer H Ku,1,2 Eric B Suhler,1,2,3 Dongseok Choi,2 James T Rosenbaum1,4,5 1

Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA 2 Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA 3 Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA 4 Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA 5 Devers Eye Institute, Legacy Health Systems, Portland, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Jennifer Ku, Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Mailcode: CEI, 3375 Terwilliger blvd, Portland, OR 97239, USA; [email protected] Received 22 March 2013 Revised 7 December 2013 Accepted 18 January 2014 Published Online First 7 February 2014

ABSTRACT Aims To determine if characteristics of retinal vasculitis correlate with ocular complications, or the response to different lines of treatment. Materials and methods We performed a computerised database analysis of 56 patients evaluated for uveitis at the Casey Eye Institute from September 1985 until May 2010. All patients had non-infectious retinal vasculitis and at least 1 year of follow-up. Results Although occlusive vasculitis was rare, retinal neovascularisation occurred much more commonly in the occlusive vasculitis subgroup than among the nonocclusive vasculitis subgroup ( p

The course of retinal vasculitis.

To determine if characteristics of retinal vasculitis correlate with ocular complications, or the response to different lines of treatment...
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