title: The Manchester Uveitis Clinic: the first 3000 patients--epidemiology and casemix.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To demonstrate the demography, anatomical, and diagnostic classification of patients with uveitis attending the Manchester Uveitis Clinic (MUC), a specialist uveitis clinic in the northwest of England, UK.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective retrieval of data on a computerized database incorporating all new referrals to MUC from 1991 to 2013.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 3000 new patients with uveitis were seen during a 22-year period. The anatomical types seen were anterior 46%; intermediate 11.1%; posterior 21.8%; and panuveitis 21.1%. The most common diagnoses were Fuchs heterochromic uveitis (11.5% of total), sarcoidosis-related uveitis (9.7%), idiopathic intermediate uveitis (7.9%), idiopathic acute anterior uveitis (7.0%), and toxoplasmosis (6.9%). Syphilis and tuberculosis-associated uveitis increased markedly in frequency during the study period.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The uveitis casemix in this region reflects a predominantly white Caucasian population in a temperate country, but with changing characteristics owing to increasing immigration, enhanced diagnostic techniques, changes in referral pattern, and some real changes in disease incidence.
authors.affiliation: The Royal Eye Hospital , Manchester , UK.
authors.forename: Nicholas P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006753:Hospital Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends; D011446:Prospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014605:Uveitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: Casemix; demography; epidemiology; uveitis