Uveitis/symptoms/potential disease processes
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The lists below include some of the most common systemic findings in patients with uveitis. This is borrowed from an article on uveitis at emedicine.com msb
Head/CNS
Headaches - VKH disease, sarcoidosis, Behçet disease, tuberculosis, herpes zoster, large cell lymphoma, polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), Cryptococcus meningitis, toxoplasmosis, Lyme disease
Auditory/vestibular - VKH disease, sarcoidosis, Wegener granulomatosis, Eales disease, syphilis
Cranial neuropathy - Lyme disease, sarcoidosis, multiple sclerosis, syphilis, herpes simplex virus
Psychosis - VKH disease, Behçet disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Cerebral vasculitis - Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE), Behçet disease, herpes simplex virus, herpes zoster virus, syphilis, Lyme disease
Ear/Nose/Throat
Bilateral ear pinna inflammation - Relapsing polychondritis
Saddle nose deformity - Syphilis, Wegener granulomatosis, relapsing polychondritis
Oral ulcers - Behçet disease, SLE, herpes simplex, Reiter syndrome, ulcerative colitis
Sinusitis - Sarcoidosis, Wegener granulomatosis
Salivary/lacrimal gland swelling - Sarcoidosis, lymphoma
Lymphadenopathy - Lymphoma, HIV, toxoplasmosis
Gastrointestinal
Diarrhea - Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, Whipple disease
Jaundice/hepatosplenomegaly - Brucellosis, CMV, sarcoidosis, infectious hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis
Pulmonary
Cough, shortness of breath - Tuberculosis (TB), sarcoidosis, Pneumocystis carinii, malignancy, Wegener granulomatosis
Chest CT scan/chest x-ray: nodules, hilar adenopathy, infiltrates - Ocular histoplasmosis, sarcoidosis (hilar adenopathy), malignancy, TB, P carinii pneumonia
Genitourinary
Genital ulcers - Behçet disease, Reiter syndrome, syphilis
Hematuria - Wegener granulomatosis, PAN, SLE
Circinate balanitis - Ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter syndrome
Urethral discharge - Reiter syndrome, syphilis
Nephritis - PAN, Wegener granulomatosis
Epididymitis - PAN, Behçet disease, Reiter syndrome
Dermatologic
Alopecia - VKH disease, syphilis
Vitiligo, poliosis - VKH disease
Nodules - Sarcoidosis, SLE, leprosy, Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis
Rash - Syphilis, Lyme disease, Reiter syndrome, leprosy, sarcoidosis, herpes zoster, Behçet disease, psoriasis, SLE
Keratoderma blennorrhagicum - Reiter syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis
Erythema nodosum - Behçet disease, sarcoidosis, APMPPE
Musculoskeletal
Arthralgias/arthritis - Behçet disease, sarcoidosis, SLE, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), Lyme disease, syphilis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter syndrome, ulcerative colitis
Sacroiliitis - Ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease
Constitutional
Fever - Reiter syndrome, Behçet disease, PAN, inflammatory bowel disease, HIV, TB, coccidioidomycosis, Whipple disease
Night sweats - Malignancy, TB, sarcoidosis, coccidioidomycosis
Flulike symptoms - APMPPE, multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS)
uveitis, symptoms - potential disease processs
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uveitis, symptoms - potential disease processs
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Re: uveitis, symptoms - potential disease processs
ive actualy linked uveitis to bodyshock, what i mean by this is although i dont know how mine started (although i think my tattoos might have something to do with it) i can say that mine always flares up or re-starts when i hurt myself. i frst noticed this after i had my eye injected with steroids, this cleared my eye up completly untill i dislocated my knee and within 12 hours my uveitis was back, i then again got it cleared up and proceded to break my ankle, yet again within 12 hours the iritis was back.
has a link of this sort been mentioned before??
has a link of this sort been mentioned before??
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Re: uveitis, symptoms - potential disease processs
any infection anywhere in the body can bring about new inflammation in the eye. Trauma impacts the inflammatory cascade which can bring about new inflammation elsewhere in the body including the eye.
I hope this helps,
Mike
I hope this helps,
Mike
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