Clinical Course before and after Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery under Systemic Infliximab Therapy in Patients with Behçet's Disease.

Purpose: Patients with Behçet's disease often need intraocular surgeries for the treatment of secondary cataract or glaucoma. This study aims to report the clinical course before and after the intraocular surgeries of 5 patients who were systematically treated with infliximab.

Methods: Retrospective case series.

Guidelines for the diagnosis of ocular sarcoidosis.

Purpose: To delineate features of ocular sarcoidosis.

Methods: Comparison of the old and new Japanese guidelines for diagnosing ocular sarcoidosis by review of the medical records of 100 sarcoidosis patients and 147 patients with non-sarcoidosis uveitis.

Results: The overall diagnostic sensitivity and specificity for the old guidelines were 80.

[Case of neurosarcoidosis with rapid visual field defect progression].

Objective: To report a case of neurosarcoidosis with rapid progression of visual field defects.

Case: A 28-year-old woman presented with bilateral uveitis and was diagnosed as having sarcoidosis after skin and cervical lymph node biopsy. Since bilateral excavations of the optic nerve head and visual field defects were observed, endocranial lesion was suspected.

[The reevaluation of categorization for ocular manifestation of sarcoidosis in the "Guidelines for Diagnosis of Ocular Sarcoidosis"].

Purpose: To increase the degree of specificity for nomenclature in the current "Guidelines for Diagnosis of Ocular Sarcoidosis" published in 1990 by the Diffuse Pulmonary Disease Research Committee of Japan.

Subjects And Methods: We reviewed the records of patients with uveitis from the Uveitis Clinic in the Department of Ophthalmology at Yokohama City University. Subjects were selected from the records of uveitis patients with histologically proven sarcoidosis (78), and others with non-sarcoidosis uveitis (81).

Comparison of patients with Behçet's disease in the 1980s and 1990s.

Objective: To compare clinical findings in patients with Behçet's disease (BD) seen in 2 different decades (1980s and 1990s) to determine if there has been a shift toward the appearance of less severe disease.

Design: Retrospective, comparative case series.

Participants: Two hundred forty patients with uveitis caused by BD who had their first visit and at least a 4-month follow-up at the uveitis clinic of University of Tokyo Hospital between January 1980 and December 1999 were enrolled.