Sympathetic Ophthalmia in Patients with Enucleation or Evisceration: Pathology Laboratory and IRIS Registry Experience.

Introduction: Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is a rare bilateral granulomatous panuveitis that can follow surgical or nonsurgical ocular trauma in one eye. Because its diagnosis requires clinical-pathologic correlation, the true incidence of SO is unknown, and there is a need to understand the recent trends in risk factors and frequency of this condition.

Methods: Pathology records of all enucleated or eviscerated (ENEV) eyes at three pathology laboratories were reviewed.