title: Applicability of the 2001 revised diagnostic criteria in Brazilian Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the applicability of the international revised diagnostic criteria for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective study. Medical charts of 140 patients with the diagnosis of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease, from the Uveitis Sector of the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), were revised and classified following the revised diagnostic criteria.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 140 patients, 12.85% fulfilled the criteria for complete disease, 29.28% incomplete disease, 28.57% "probable" Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease and 28.27% were considered not Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors consider that the international revised diagnostic criteria have good applicability and are very useful to help in the diagnosis of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Isabel Habeyche
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Cardoso
authors.forename: Moysés Eduardo
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Zajdenweber
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Muccioli
authors.forename: Luciana Peixoto
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Fimamor
authors.forename: Rubens
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Belfort
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003941:Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014607:Uveomeningoencephalitic Syndrome / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*