Uveitis surgery

	Uveitis Microchapters
Home
Patient Information
Overview
Historical Perspective
Classification
Pathophysiology
Causes
Differentiating Uveitis from other Diseases
Epidemiology and Demographics
Risk Factors
Screening
Natural History, Complications and Prognosis
Diagnosis
History and Symptoms
Physical Examination
Laboratory Findings
X Ray
CT
MRI
Ultrasound
Other Imaging Findings
Other Diagnostic Studies
Treatment
Medical Therapy
Surgery
Primary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Cost-Effectiveness of Therapy
Future or Investigational Therapies
Case Studies
Case #1
Uveitis surgery On the Web
Most recent articles
Most cited articles
Review articles
CME Programs
Powerpoint slides
Images
American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Uveitis surgery All Images X-rays Echo & Ultrasound CT Images MRI
Ongoing Trials at Clinical Trials.gov
US National Guidelines Clearinghouse
NICE Guidance
FDA on Uveitis surgery
CDC on Uveitis surgery
Uveitis surgery in the news
Blogs on Uveitis surgery
Directions to Hospitals Treating Uveitis
Risk calculators and risk factors for Uveitis surgery

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

Overview

Surgical management of uveitis is ususally reserved for patients with complications of uveitis or in cases where patient fails to respond to medical treatment.

Surgery

There is no surgical treatment of uveitis. Surgical options are mainly reserved for management of complications or in some cases for diagnostic purposes:^[1]

Indications for surgery in uveitis

Two main indications for surgery in uveitis are therapeutic and diagnostic .

Therapeutic i.e visual rehabilitation

Diagnostic

Indications which require diagnostic procedures in cases of uveitis are as follows:

Atypical clinical presentation
Failure to response to treatment
Strong suspicion of malignancy
Rapidly progressive disease with inconclusive work up

Following are the few surgical options used for diagnostic purposes:

Vitreous tap
Vitreous biopsy
Chorioretinal biopsy

Reference

↑ Katzav S, Shapiro J, Segal S, yM (1986). "General nesthesia during excision of a mouse tumor accelerates postsurgical growth of metastases by suppression of natural killer cell activity". Isr J Med Sci. 22 (5): 339–45. PMID PMC3744781 : PMC3744781 Check |pmid= value (help).

Template:WH Template:WS

[pmid:_PMC3744781-1] Katzav S, Shapiro J, Segal S, yM (1986). "General nesthesia during excision of a mouse tumor accelerates postsurgical growth of metastases by suppression of natural killer cell activity". Isr J Med Sci. 22 (5): 339–45. PMID PMC3744781 : PMC3744781 Check |pmid= value (help).

[1]