5 Topic Commentaries

Approaching Uveitic Retinal Detachments

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  Robert J. Brockhurst, MD, MD

  Ophthalmology (Retina)

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  Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; Retina Foundation (Boston)

  Peripheral uveitis may cause either secondary or rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

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  Phillip J. Kanter, MD, MD

  Ophthalmology

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  University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary (Chicago)

  In four patients with bilateral uveitis and exudative retinal detachments, corticosteroid therapy was not always effective.

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  Andrew Rados, M.D., MD

  Ophthalmology

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  Newark Beth Israel Hospital

  The detachment healed spontaneously, the hypotonia disappeared and within three months normal vision of one eye and almost normal vision of the other eye was restored.

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  Bryn Melissa Burkholder, MD, MD

  Ophthalmology (Uveitis)

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  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Wilmer Eye Institute

  We’d be masking the condition and delaying her diagnosis.

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  Morton F. Goldberg, MD, MD

  Ophthalmology

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  University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary (Chicago)

  If nonrhegmatogenous retinal detachment actually occurs because of sarcoidosis, it must represent one of the most uncommon manifestations of this protean disease.

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