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Epidemiological characteristics of uveitis in Switzerland
Authors:Tao Van Tran  Carlos Auer  Yan Guex-Crosier  Nancy Pittet  Carl P. Herbort
Affiliation:(1) Department of Ophthalmology, Hôpital Jules Gonin, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;(2) Eye Center "lsquo"La Source"rsquo", 2 Ave des Bergières, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract:
Since January 1990, data from uveitis patients have been systematically stored in a computer data bank. During the period from January 1990 to March 1993, 435 new patients (185 female and 250 male, mean age 43 years; range 6–92) were seen at the Uveitis Clinic of the Hopital Jules Gonin. These 435 patients (630 eyes) were subdivided into anterior uveitis (268 patients — 62%), intermediate uveitis (47 patients — 11%), posterior uveitis (89 patients — 20%) and panuveitis (31 patients — 7%). The incidence of uveitis for the referral area considered was calculated to be 17 per 100,000 inhabitants per year. A specifie diagnosis was found in 312 cases (72%). The most frequently diagnosed entities were HLA-B27-associated acute anterior uveitis (67 cases — 15.4%), uveitis associated with acute herpes zoster ophthalmicus (40 cases — 9.2%), toxoplasmosis (39 cases — 9%), typical pars planitis (29 cases — 6.7%), sarcoidosis (29 cases — 6.7%), Fuchs' heterochromic cyclitis (27 cases — 6.2%), herpetic anterior uveitis (21 cases — 4.8%) and acute retinal necrosis (11 cases — 2.5%). Incidence and distribution of most disease entities correspond to those of other European series.
Keywords:uveitis  epidemiology  incidence
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