Retinal vasculitis is the most frequent finding in uveitis associated with multiple scleriosis

Author: Ahmed Abu El-Asrar (Saudi Arabia)

Co-authors: Abdulrahman AlBloushi

Purpose

To describe the clinical findings and outcomes in patients who presented with uveitis associated with multiple sclerosis (MS)

Setting/Venue

King Abdulaziz University Hospital, College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Methods

Retrospective review of 20 patients (38 eyes)

Results

The most frequent ocular finding was multifocal elongated retinal perivenous "sheathing" with focal vascular leakage on fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) in 29 eyes followed by vitreous snowballs and debris in 26 eyes, anterior chamber inflammation in 15 eyes, mutton-fat keratic precipitates in 14 eyes, posterior synechiae in 13 eyes, cystoid macular edema (CME) in 9 eyes, iris nodules in 4 eyes, optic neuritis in 3 eyes. Patients with CME were treated successfully with systemic corticosteroids combined with mycophenolate mofetil. Ocular complications were cataract in 6 eyes, glaucoma in 2 eyes and vitreous hemorrhage in one eye.

Conlusions

Multifocal elongated retinal perivenous "sheathing" with focal vascular leakage on FFA is the most frequent finding in uveitis associated with MS.

Financial Disclosure

Non to declare.

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