AI Article Synopsis

  • Anterior uveitis is inflammation in the front part of the eye and can have different causes, which doctors need to understand.
  • This review aims to help doctors identify types of anterior uveitis that are often overlooked, as well as other conditions that might look like it.
  • Misdiagnosing these eye problems can lead to serious issues with vision or even life-threatening situations, so it's important for doctors to be careful in their assessments.

Article Abstract

Background: Anterior uveitis, inflammation of the anterior chamber and related structures, is a cohort of diseases that can present to almost any general or sub-specialty Ophthalmology practice. Its features classically involve anterior chamber cell and flare. Below the surface of these two signs exist a panoply of diagnoses. BODY: The purpose of this review is to provide a general framework for diagnoses of anterior uveitis that are often missed as well as non-uveitic pathologies that often mimic anterior uveitis. Diagnostic deviation in either direction can have vision-threatening and rarely life-threatening consequences for patients. Using a comprehensive literature review we have collected a broad spectrum of etiologies of anterior uveitis that are easily missed and non-uveitic pathologies that can masquerade as anterior uveitis.

Conclusions: We present a focused review on specific misdiagnosed anterior uveitis pathologies and some of the conditions that can masquerade as anterior uveitis and scleritis.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11004105PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12348-024-00396-zDOI Listing

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