title: Bilateral ankle edema with bilateral iritis.
abstract: I report two patient presented to me with bilateral symmetrical ankle edema and bilateral acute iritis. A 42-year-old female of Indian origin and 30-year-old female from Somalia both presented with bilateral acute iritis. In the first patient, bilateral ankle edema preceded the onset of bilateral acute iritis. Bilateral ankle edema developed during the course of disease after onset of ocular symptoms in the second patient. Both patients did not suffer any significant ocular problem in the past, and on systemic examination, all clinical parameters were within normal limit. Lacrimal gland and conjunctival nodule biopsy established the final diagnosis of sarcoidosis in both cases, although the chest x-rays were normal.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Mohammad Dossary Hospital, PO Box 335 Al Khobar 31952, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. sunkaru79@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000843:Ankle Joint; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000473:pathology; D004487:Edema / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D007500:Iritis / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus / Q000473:pathology; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology / Q000473:pathology*; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012998:Somalia / Q000208:ethnology