Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects of Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients in a Single Center in Baghdad by Ali Hussein Al Hafidh

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Real-Life Data on the Efficacy of Canakinumab in Patients with Adult-Onset Still’s Disease by Antonio Vitale, Virginia Berlengiero, Jurgen Sota, Luisa Ciarcia, Nicola Ricco, Sara Barneschi, Mariam Mourabi, Giuseppe Lopalco, Chiara Marzo, Francesca Bellisai, Florenzo Iannone, Bruno Frediani, Luca Cantarini

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Role of Colchicine Treatment in Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Associated Periodic Syndrome (TRAPS): Real-Life Data from the AIDA Network by Antonio Vitale, Jurgen Sota, Laura Obici, Nicola Ricco, Maria Cristina Maggio, Marco Cattalini, Piero Ruscitti, Francesco Caso, Raffaele Manna, Ombretta Viapiana, Valeria Caggiano, Giacomo Emmi, Antonella Insalaco, Davide Montin, Francesco Licciardi, Alessandra Soriano, Lorenzo Dagna, Carlo Salvarani, Vittoria Lamacchia, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Roberto Giacomelli, Bruno Frediani, Alessandra Renieri, Luca Cantarini

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Two Cases of Heerfordt’s Syndrome: A Rare Manifestation of Sarcoidosis by Keishi Fujiwara, Yasushi Furuta, Satoshi Fukuda

“…Heerfordt’s syndrome is a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis characterized by the presence of facial nerve palsy, parotid gland enlargement, anterior uveitis, and low grade fever. Two cases of Heerfordt’s syndrome and a literature review are presented. …”
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Stickler Syndrome Type 1 with Short Stature and Atypical Ocular Manifestations by Manisha Goyal, Seema Kapoor, Shiro Ikegawa, Gen Nishimura

“…We report an Indian boy having 2710C>T mutation in COL2A1 gene demonstrating short stature, ptosis, and uveitis with Stickler syndrome.…”
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Infectious and Noninfectious Granulomatosis in Patient with Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Followup by Jelena Paovic, Predrag Paovic, Vojislav Sredovic

“…This developed into total uveitis with retinal periphlebitis and anterior granulomatous uveitis—all of which are clinically similar in both MS and sarcoidosis.…”
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Endogenous Fusarium Endophthalmitis in Diabetes Mellitus by S. Balamurugan, Ashish Khodifad

“…The patient presented with granulomatous uveitis masquerading as noninfectious uveitis with a very good response to steroids. …”
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Ten Cases of Biopsy-Proven Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis: Report from a Single Center in a Rural Area from 2008 to 2021 by Kei Nagai, Tsuyoshi Tsukada, Akiko Sakata, Atsushi Ueda

“…There was no concurrent uveitis. Renal function normalized after 4 months of treatment with moderate-dose prednisolone. …”
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Mean Platelet Volume in Ocular Behçet’s Disease by Fatih Mehmet Türkcü, Abdullah Kürşat Cingü, Harun Yüksel, Yasin Çınar, Meltem Akkurt, Muhammed Şahin, Zeynep Özkurt, Alparslan Şahin, İhsan Çaça

“…Upon presentation with active uveitis, the mean MPV levels were 7.88 ± 1.14 femtoliters (fL) for BD group. …”
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Antiphospholipid Syndrome Associated with Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis by Jozélio Freire De Carvalho, Antoniella Fernanda Mendanha Sousa

“…A 31-year-old woman with a past medical history of uveitis experienced a pulmonary thromboembolism in March 2014 and was treated with rivaroxaban (20 mg/day). …”
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TINU: A Multisystemic Inflammatory Disorder—Case Report and Literature Review by Juan Montejo-Hernández, Jorge Rico-Fontalvo, Jose Cabrales, Shuchi Anand, María Cristina Martínez-Ávila, Claudia Duran-Merino, Luis Arias-Restrepo, Camilo Andrés Gómez Duran

“…The syndrome of tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (TINU) is a rare oculorenal condition, mainly seen in children and women. …”
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Retinal Toxicity after Initial Administration of Nivolumab and Ipilimumab by Adnan Kilani, Efstathios Vounotrypidis, Susanna F. König, Armin Wolf

“…An extensive laboratory workup, including uveitis workup, onconeuronal and retinal antibodies, ruled out a paraneoplastic autoimmune disorder and a granulomatous disease. …”
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A Role for Folate in Microbiome-Linked Control of Autoimmunity by Christine Mölzer, Heather M. Wilson, Lucia Kuffova, John V. Forrester

“…Here, we review the role of folate in AD/AID with some emphasis on sight-threatening autoimmune uveitis. Since folate is required for the generation and maintenance of Treg, we propose that one mechanism for microbiome-based control of AD/AID is via folate-dependent induction of GI tract Treg, particularly colonic Treg, via anergic T cells (Tan). …”
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A proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL) level among risk factors of ocular involvement in patients with Behçet’s disease by Rasha M. Ghaleb, Hanan S. Gad, Mohamed I. Abdallah, Zaki M. Zaki, Jehan A. Mahmoud

“…Conclusions Overexpression of APRIL in patients with BD, particularly in terms of uveitis, cataract, and hypopyon, lends credence to the idea that B cell activating factors have an important function in BD. …”
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Ocular toxocariasis. A case presentation by Mariela Julia Curbelo Gómez, Bárbara Teresa Ríos Araujo, María Adela LLull Tombo

“…The clinical manifestations were pain and red eye in a four year-old child. A prior acute uveitis in the LE was found in the physical ocular exam. …”
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Listeria monocytogenes endophthalmitis – case report with a good visual outcome by Milena Grad, Patrycja Duda, Barbara Terelak-Borys, Edyta Czapczyńska, Iwona Grabska-Liberek

“…The condition manifested primarily as acute anterior uveitis. Microbiological analysis of an anterior chamber fluid sample confirmed the presence of L. monocytogenes, while blood and vitreous body cultures were negative. …”
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Rituximab Not Effective for Hearing Loss in Cogan’s Syndrome by Daniel R. Bunker, Leslie Dubin Kerr

“…We report the case of a patient who developed acute bilateral uveitis and sensorineural hearing loss. A diagnosis of atypical Cogan’s syndrome was made. …”
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Pulmonary Nodules as an Initial Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease by M. Malekmohammad, A. Emamifar

“…Behçet’s disease (BD) is a systemic vasculopathy, characterized by recurrent oral aphthae, genital ulcers, uveitis, and skin lesions. Although vascular involvement, including venous and arteries of any size, is a usual manifestation, cases with pulmonary thrombosis as the initial symptom are not common in the absence of pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA). …”
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Neovascular age-related macular degeneration: disease pathogenesis and current state of molecular biomarkers predicting treatment response—a scoping review by Nikolaos Dervenis, Eleftherios Agorogiannis, Panagiotis Dervenis

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Examining the Choroid in Ocular Inflammation: A Focus on Enhanced Depth Imaging by Abeir Baltmr, Sue Lightman, Oren Tomkins-Netzer

“…The choroid is the vascular layer that supplies the outer retina and is involved in the pathogenesis of several ocular conditions including choroidal tumors, age related macular degeneration, central serous chorioretinopathy, diabetic retinopathy, and uveitis. Nevertheless, difficulties in the visualization of the choroid have limited our understanding of its exact role in ocular pathology. …”
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