Sarcoidosis-related Uveitis: Clinical Presentation, Disease Course, and Rates of Systemic Disease Progression After Uveitis Diagnosis

Abstract

Objective: To document the clinical presentation, treatment, and visual outcome of sarcoid uveitis and to determine the timing and potential risk factors of sarcoidosis progression to symptomatic systemic disease from the time of sarcoid uveitis diagnosis. Design: Retrospective, interventional case series. Methods: Subjects: Patients with dual diagnoses of uveitis and presumed/biopsy-proven sarcoidosis. Procedure: Retrospective review of 143 patient records from the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and Eye Surgery Associates in Melbourne, Australia, between October 1990 and April 2014 coded with the dual diagnoses of uveitis and sarcoidosis. Only patients with uveitis and presumed or bio..