title: [Pharmacological treatment of recurrent idiopathic anterior uveitis].
abstract: Recurrent anterior uveitis (AU) is an autoimmune disease that in 20% of patients leads to severe visual loss or blindness, thereby a severe disability and significant quality of life impairment. That is why, it is important to conduct a long term treatment after an acute phase of the disease, to keep the remission as long as possible. Up to 50% of patients with recurrent AU have no additional symptoms of systemic disease. This situation, classified as idiopathic AU (IAU), causes a lot of problems when a therapeutic strategy has to be chosen. Nevertheless, IAU is considered to be a first symptom of spondylarthropathy (SpA), even several dozen years prior to other typical manifestations of SpA. There have been published few papers concerning only small groups of patients with IAU, treated with disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. The authors present the recommendations for systemic treatment of IAU, based on their own clinical experience, and systematic review of the literature.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Okulistyki II Wydziału Lekarskiego Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego.
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Szaflik
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bachta
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kulig
authors.forename: Mateusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tłustochowicz
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stankiewicz
authors.forename: Witold
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tłustochowicz
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018501:Antirheumatic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011044:Poland; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D014606:Uveitis, Anterior / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D018501:Antirheumatic Agents; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents