title: Patterns and Etiologies of Uveitis at a Tertiary Referral Center in Taiwan.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the patterns and etiologies of uveitis at a tertiary referral center in Taiwan.
  
  
  METHODS
  This retrospective chart review of uveitis patients from January 2001 to December 2014 updates a previous study a decade ago (2003).
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified 450 patients, among whom anterior uveitis was most common, followed by panuveitis, posterior uveitis, and intermediate uveitis. A specific diagnosis was identified in 331 patients. In 73 infectious uveitis cases, herpetic anterior uveitis was the leading cause, followed by endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis and acute retinal necrosis. In 258 non-infectious uveitis cases, HLA-B27-associated uveitis was most commonly seen, followed by Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease and Posner-Schlossman syndrome. Compared with our previous study, we found more viral infection and sarcoidosis but fewer cases of Behçet disease, tuberculosis, and toxoplasmosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results provide useful information about the patterns and etiologies of uveitis in a selected population in Taiwan.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ophthalmology , Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital , Kaohsiung , Taiwan and.
authors.forename: Shih-Chou
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ophthalmology , Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital , Kaohsiung , Taiwan and.
authors.forename: Chiu-Tung
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Chuang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ophthalmology , Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital , Kaohsiung , Taiwan and.
authors.forename: Ming-Ying
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ophthalmology , Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital , Kaohsiung , Taiwan and.|b School of Medicine , National Yang-Ming University , Taipei , Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shwu-Jiuan
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Sheu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014605:Uveitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Epidemiology; Taiwan; ocular inflammation; uveitis; uveitis etiology