[Uveitis and spondyloarthritis: prevalence and relationship with joint disease].

Purpose: To study uveitis prevalence in the local population with spondyloarthritis and its temporal relationship with joint complaints.

Methods: We reviewed seventy-seven charts of spondyloarthropathy patients from the rheumatology clinic of the "Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba" for spondyloarthritis class, patients' sex and age, occurrence of uveitis and its location and relationship between the first episode of uveitis and initial joint complaints.

Results: Uveitis was found in 12 of 77 patients (15.