Pediatric Uveitis in Turkey: The National Registry Report II

ABSTRACT

Purpose

To report demographic and clinical profiles of children with uveitis in theTurkishpopulation.

Methods

The data of the pediatric uveitis cases in the nation wide uveitis database were analyzed.

Results

The study included 697 eyes of 442 patients with a meanage of 10.8 ± 3.8 years. There were 333 patients (75.3%) with non-infectious uveitis and 69 patients (15.6%) with infectious uveitis. Pars planitis (20.1%) was leading clinical form followed by idiopathic cases with uveitis other than pars planitis (18.8%), juvenile idiopathic arthritis(JIA) related uveitis (12.4%), Behçet uveitis (9.3%) and toxoplasma retinochoroiditis (7.9%). Ocular involvement was unilateral in 187 patients (42.3%) and bilateral in 255 patients (57.7%). The most common anatomiclocation of uveitis was anterior uveitis (39.1%), followed by intermediate uveitis (29.4%), panuveitis (16.1%) and posterior uveitis (15.4%).

Conclusion

The most common systemic association was JIA in the younger children and Behçet disease in the older children.

KEYWORDS:

• Demographic features
• etiology
• pediatricuveitis
• patientregistry
• registry
• uveitis

Acknowledgments

The following are the members of the BUST Study Group listed in order of the number of patients registered at each center: Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun, Yılmaz Özyazgan, Didar Uçar, Pınar Özdal, Yıldız Boztok, Sibel Kadayıfçılar, Bora Eldem, F. Nilüfer Yalçındağ, Figen Batıoğlu, Özge Yanık, Nilüfer Berker, Yasemin Özdamar, Yonca Akova, Leyla Erkanlı, Ertuğrul Mirza, Merih Soylu, Yüksel Süllü, Gülten Sungur, Ali Osman Saatci, Nurettin Akyol, Adem Türk, Özlem Yıldırım, Tülay Akçetin, Cemil Apaydın, Sinan Emre, Özcan Kayıkçıoğlu, Haluk Kazokoğlu, Sumru Önal, Muhittin Taşkapılı, Şengül Özdek, Gökhan Gürelik, Banu Öztürk, Suzan Güven Yılmaz, Halil Ateş, Ahmet Maden, Aras Saklamaz, A Hakan Durukan, Güngör Sobacı, Zeliha Yazar, Gülay Güllülü, Pelin Yılmazbaş, Sema Dündar, Selçuk Sızmaz,, Ayşen Topalkara, Ayşe Vural, Levent Karabaş, Muzaffer Öztürk, Şeyda Uğurlu, Ahmet Karakurt, Feyza Önder, Nur Ayrancıoğlu.

This study has been presented at “The 15th International Ocular Inflammation Society (IOIS) Congress,” Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November 13–16, 2019.

We thank Mehmet Fatih Kağan Değirmenci for his help in the statistical analysis.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

The BUST study was supported by the Turkish Ophthalmological Association using a special grant from Novartis, Turkey. Novartis had no role in the study design or interpretation of the data, the writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Publication of this article is not contingent upon approval by Novartis.