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- Title
Posterior scleritis.
- Authors
Ferreira Rebelo, Paulo Bernardo; de Villa Nova Japiassu, Carolina; Medeiros, Felipe; Arcover de Gonçalves de Medeiros, Hilton; Gonçalves de Medeiros, João Eugênio
- Abstract
Posterior Scleritis (PS) is an inflammation of the posterior scleral segment, of low inflammatory or infectious etiology, with a rapid, progressive and irreversible evolution with severe visual impairment, especially if the diagnosis and treatment of (PS) are not performed in time skillful. Ocular pain, eye movement pain, headache and visual haze are the main signs and symptoms. It can be of idiopathic cause or associated with systemic disease in up to 45% of the cases. Rheumatoid arthritis is described as the most common association. Infectious causes may be present such as: Simple Herpes, Ophthalmic Herpes Zoster, Syphilis and Tuberculosis. Bilaterality can occur in up to 35% of cases being more prevalent in women from the fifth decade of life.
- Subjects
ETIOLOGY of diseases; HERPES zoster; VISION disorders; POSTERIOR segment (Eye); SYMPTOMS; EYE pain; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2019, Vol 78, Issue 2, p137
- ISSN
0034-7280
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5935/0034-7280.20180113