[Uveitis: epidemiological aspects at the Hospital Laquintinie de Douala].

Purpose: This retrospective study was carried out to determine the epidemiological characteristics of uveitis in our country.

Patients And Methods: 38 patients, of 5,420 consulted, presented with uveitis (0.7%). 13 of them were female and 25 were male. Their ages ranged from 10 to 17 years (mean 33.9 years).

Results: The uveitis was unilateral in 81.6% of the cases, and the anterior form was found in 51.1% of the cases. An etiology was identified or suspected for 24 patients (63.1%), the most frequent being sinusitis (45.8%) and toxoplasmosis (29.2%). The treatment was generally effective (status improved in 72.2%), although 2 patients (3 eyes) lost their vision.

Discussion And Conclusion: In spite of the low frequency of this disease, ophthalmologists are concerned about uveitis because of the difficulty of its etiological diagnosis and its ineluctable evolution, sometimes to blindness.