Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome after cutaneous injury.

Objective: To describe three patients who developed Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome (VKH) after cutaneous injury.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Participants: Three patients seen in the uveitis clinic at Aravind Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Madurai, India, participated.

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome in children.

Purpose: To describe the clinical presentation and natural history of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) syndrome in children, an often unrecognized cause of pediatric uveitis.

Methods: We performed a clinic-based cross-sectional survey and retrospective review of pediatric patients with VHK seen in the uveitis clinic at the Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India, between January 1993 and December 1995.

Results: A total of 98 patients with VKH syndrome were seen in the uveitis clinic at the Aravind Eye Hospital during the three years covered by the survey, of whom three (about 3%, with an approximate incidence of 1 case/year) were children 16 years of age or younger.

Uveitis associated with an epidemic outbreak of leptospirosis.

Purpose: To define uveitis associated with leptospirosis in a clinical setting.

Methods: We present the clinical features of 73 consecutive cases of uveitis linked clinically to an outbreak of systemic leptospirosis in patients with antibodies to Leptospira species who were examined from January to September 1994.

Results: In 73 patients, the pattern of ocular involvement was unilateral in 35 and bilateral in 38.