Uveitis in Infancy.

Kim, Sang Min

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1973;14(2):165-169.
Published online January 1, 2001.

Uveitis in Infancy.

Sang Min Kim

Department of Ophthalmology, Han Gang Sacred Heart Hospital, School of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.

심포지움 : 포도막염에 (蒲萄膜炎) 관한 최신지견 ; 소아의 포도막염

Abstract

Since the advent of various antibiotics and corticosteroids contributed very much the treatment of ocular inflammatory diseases, still not rare of uveitis patients in infancy tends to fall blindness because of inability to confirm the true cause of most uveitis by recent diagnostic and therapeutic methods. Incidence, clinical characteristics and modern therapeutic measures are briefly discussed. Toxoplasmosis, Sarcoidosis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and cytomegalic inclusion disease are reviewed.