Etiology of Pediatric Uveitis in a Tertiary Pediatric Eye Hospital in Egypt

ABSTRACT

Purpose

To report the causes of childhood-onset uveitis in a tertiary pediatric ophthalmology hospital in Egypt.

Methods

Retrospective study of the medical records of all uveitis patients following up at a tertiary pediatric ophthalmology hospital in Egypt from January 2017 to December 2020.

Results

The present study included 388 patients. The most common anatomical category was intermediate uveitis (30.4%), and around half of these children had pars planitis. This was followed by panuveitis (25.5%), posterior uveitis (23.5%), and anterior uveitis (20.6%), in decreasing frequency. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, toxoplasmosis, and Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome were the most common causes of anterior uveitis, posterior uveitis, and panuveitis respectively. Cataract (40.5%), glaucoma (33.8%), and cystoid macular edema (31.6%) were the most frequent ocular complications.

Conclusion

The present report provides the relative prevalence of the different anatomical types of uveitis, as well as their main causes in a cohort of Egyptian patients with childhood-onset uveitis.

KEYWORDS:

• Egypt
• intermediate
• pediatric
• retinoschisis
• uveitis

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Funding

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