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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Tarek Nafee, M.D. [2]

Overview

There are several surgical options for treatment of uveitis based on following indications:

Indications:
- Therapeutic i.e visual rehabilitation: Surgery for removal of cataract, band keratopathy, corneal scars, pupillary membranes, removal of dense vitreous membranes.
- Diagnostic: aquoeus tap, vitroeus biopsy, tissue biopsy
- Management of complications: Surgery for glaucoma, vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment and chronic hypotony.

Indications for cataract surgery

Phaco-antigenic uveitis: leakage of lens protein resulting in inflammation
Cataract impairing vision
Cataract impairing posterior segment visualisation*: esp cases of retinal neovascularisation , retino-choroidal pathology or patient undergoing vitreo-retinal

surgery.

Surgical options in Band Shaped Keratopathy