Childhood Chronic Idiopathic Uveitis in a Multicentre International Cohort

IMPORTANCE: Idiopathic uveitis makes up around 50% of non-infectious uveitis but the clinical characteristics in children are poorly understood.

OBJECTIVE: To report the demographic, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of children with idiopathic non-infectious uveitis (iNIU) in a multicentric retrospective study.

RESULTS: There were 126 (61 female) children with iNIU. The median age at diagnosis was 9.3 years (3-16 years) . Uveitis was bilateral in 106 patients and anterior in 68.At onset,impaired visual acuity and blindness in the worse eye were reported, in 24.4% and 15.1% patients but at 3 years of follow-up, there was a significant improvement in visual acuity (mean 0.11 SD ±0.50 vs 0.42 SD ± 0.59 p < .001).

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: There is a high rate of visual impairment at presentation in children with idiopathic uveitis. The majority of patients have a significant improvement in vision, but 1 in 6 had impaired vision or blindness in their worse eye at 3 years.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Ocular immunology and inflammation - 32(2024), 3 vom: 15. März, Seite 310-319

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Maccora, Ilaria [VerfasserIn]
Guly, Catherine [VerfasserIn]
de Libero, Cinzia [VerfasserIn]
Caputo, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Ramanan, Athimalaipet V [VerfasserIn]
Simonini, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Children
Idiopathic
Journal Article
Measures of outcome
Multicenter Study
Uveitis

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Date Completed 27.03.2024

Date Revised 27.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/09273948.2023.2169715

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353094021