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Evaluation of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in eyes with hypertensive uveitis

Din NM, Taylor SR, Isa H, Tomkins-Netzer O, Bar A, Talat L, et al.

JAMA Ophthalmol, 2014 Jul;132(7):859-65.
PMID: 24789528 DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2014.404

IMPORTANCE: Uveitic glaucoma is among the most common causes of irreversible visual loss in uveitis. However, glaucoma detection can be obscured by inflammatory changes.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) measurement can be used to detect glaucoma in uveitic eyes with elevated intraocular pressure (IOP).
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Comparative case series of RNFL measurement using optical coherence tomography performed from May 1, 2010, through October 31, 2012, at a tertiary referral center. We assigned 536 eyes with uveitis (309 patients) in the following groups: normal contralateral eyes with unilateral uveitis (n = 72), normotensive uveitis (Uv-N) (n = 143), raised IOP and normal optic disc and/or visual field (Uv-H) (n = 233), and raised IOP and glaucomatous disc and/or visual field (Uv-G) (n = 88).
EXPOSURES: Eyes with uveitis and elevated IOP (>21 mm Hg) on at least 2 occasions.
MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Comparison of RNFL values between groups of eyes and correlation with clinical data; risk factors for raised IOP, glaucoma, and RNFL thinning.
RESULTS: Mean (SD) global RNFL was thicker in Uv-N (106.4 [21.4] µm) compared with control (96.0 [9.0] µm; P
Raised Intraocular Pressure in Nonjuvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-Uveitis Children: Risk Factors and Effect on Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer

Md Din N, Tomkins-Netzer O, Talat L, Taylor SR, Isa H, Bar A, et al.

J Glaucoma, 2016 07;25(7):598-604.
PMID: 26900824 DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0000000000000379

PURPOSE: To determine risk factors for intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation and glaucoma in children with nonjuvenile idiopathic arthritis-related uveitis and any IOP-related changes in the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Clinical data were collected from children attending a tertiary referral uveitis clinic between May 2010 and October 2012. We assigned 206 eyes of 103 children into 32 normal eyes, 108 normotensive uveitics (NU), 41 hypertensive uveitics (HU: raised IOP without glaucomatous disc), and 25 glaucomatous uveitics (GU: raised IOP with glaucomatous disc). Risk factors for raised IOP, glaucoma and steroid response (SR) were evaluated and RNFL thickness across groups was compared with determine changes related to raised IOP.

RESULTS: IOP elevation occurred in 40 patients (38.8%) or 66/174 eyes with uveitis (37.9%); and SR occurred in 35.1% of all corticosteroid-treated eyes. Chronic uveitis was a significant risk factor for raised IOP [odds ratio (OR)=9.28, P=0.001], glaucoma, and SR (OR=8.4, P<0.001). Higher peak IOP was also a risk factor for glaucoma (OR=1.4, P=0.003). About 70% of SR eyes were high responders (IOP increase >15 mm Hg from baseline), associated with younger age and corticosteroid injections. Although no significant RNFL thinning was detected between HU and NU eyes, significant thinning was detected in the inferior quadrant of GU (121.3±28.9 μm) compared with NU eyes (142.1±32.0 μm, P=0.043).

CONCLUSIONS: Children with chronic uveitis are at higher risk of raised IOP and glaucoma. Thinning of the inferior RNFL quadrant may suggest glaucomatous changes in uveitic children with raised IOP.

Study site: Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Clinical and imaging features predictive of orbital granulomatosis with polyangiitis and the risk of systemic involvement

Tan LT, Davagnanam I, Isa H, Taylor SR, Rose GE, Verity DH, et al.

Ophthalmology, 2014 Jun;121(6):1304-9.
PMID: 24560566 DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.12.003

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), previously Wegener's granulomatosis, requires prompt diagnosis and systemic review to exclude life-threatening disease. However, early diagnosis of orbital GPA may be difficult because anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) and anti-PR3 antibody screening can be negative at presentation and orbital biopsies taken for diagnosis may not show the classic features of GPA. This study was designed to compare GPA with other causes of orbital inflammation and to identify the presenting clinical and imaging features most likely to predict GPA and its systemic spread.

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