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Case Discussion
Michael Wilson, MD, MAS UCSF MS and Neuroinflammation Center
Uveitis
- 38 per 100,000 persons in the U.S.
- Mean age of onset is 30 years old
- 50% of cases are idiopathic
Uveitis and Neurologic Disease
- Inflammatory
- Multiple sclerosis
- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Polyareteritis nodosa, ANCA vasculitis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Sarcoidosis
- Behcet’s disease
- Acute posterior multifocal placoid
pigment epitheliopathy
- Infectious
- Viral: Herpes viruses, HIV-1, HTLV-1,
West Nile virus, measles
- Bacterial: cat-scratch disease,
Whipple’s
- Mycobacterial: TB, leprosy
- Spirochetes: syphilis, Lyme,
Leptospira
- Protozoa: toxoplasmosis,
Pneumocystis carinii
- Nematode: gnathostomiasis,
cysticercosis
- Neoplastic
- Lymphoma
- Paraneoplastic syndromes
- Doan T, Wilson MR, Genome Med 2016