CAUSES AND CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF MASQUERADE SYNDROMES IN INTRAOCULAR INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.

Objective: To identify the clinical characteristics and prevalence of neoplastic and nonneoplastic inflammatory masquerade syndromes (IMSs) in a tertiary center and determine the useful diagnostic tests.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of consecutive 1906 patients diagnosed with intraocular inflammatory disease.

Results: Of all patients initially diagnosed with intraocular inflammatory disease, we identified 116 (6%) patients with noninflammatory causes (neoplastic IMSs in 36/116; 31% and nonneoplastic IMSs in 52/116; 45%).

Every parent tells a story: why non-adherence may persist in children receiving guideline-based comprehensive asthma care.

Objective: Effective self-management and adherence to inhaled corticosteroids are issues of particular interest in comprehensive asthma care. In spite of this care, however, a number of parents and children remain non-adherent. The reasons for this non-adherence have up till now been unknown, because previous adherence studies have based their findings either on populations with poor adherence or on unreliable self-reported adherence.