Abstract
To investigate the incidence, management and outcome of uveitis and raised intraocular pressure (IOP) in children treated at the Manchester Uveitis Clinic (MUC). This was a retrospective, observational study of patients who presented with uveitis under the age of 16 to the MUC from July 2002 to June 2016. A total of 320 children were included in the study. Out of these, 55 (17.2%) patients (75 eyes) were found to have raised IOP requiring treatment. The mean age at diagnosis of uveitis and at first recorded raised IOP was 8.2±4.3 and 10.8±3.6 years, respectively. The pre-treatment IOP was 32.3±6.6 mm Hg and the IOP at the final visit was 15.5±3.7 mm Hg (median follow-up period, 43.7 months) on a median number of 0 medications. Twenty-eight eyes (37.3%) required glaucoma drainage surgery, and eight eyes (12.5%) had cyclodiode laser before this. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that 11.5% of eyes required glaucoma surgery at 1 year after diagnosis of raised IOP, increasing to 50.0% by 5 years. The best-corrected visual acuity at diagnosis of uveitis was 0.26±0.42 logMAR, which remained stable at 0.28±0.65 logMAR at final follow-up visit. Four eyes (5.3%) from four patients fulfilled the definition of blindness by the WHO criteria. Th...Continue Reading
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