title: Profile of patients with uveitis referred to a multidisciplinary unit in northern Spain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the main characteristics of a cohort of patients with uveitis referred to a multidisciplinary unit in northern Spain.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective analysis of clinical records of patients evaluated in the Multidisciplinary Unit of the Navarra Hospital Complex from the period January 2010 until March 2015. An analysis was performed on the demographic characteristics, origin, types of uveitis, laterality, and aetiology. The present series was also compared with 2 previous series from Castilla y León and Barcelona.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 500 patients were identified, with a mean age of 47.9±16.4 years, with 50% women. The most frequent type of uveitis was anterior uveitis (65.4%), followed by posterior uveitis (17.6%), panuveitis (15.2%), and intermediate uveitis (1.8%). The origin was unclassifiable in 31.2%, followed by non-infectious systemic disease in 29.2%. Ankylosing spondylitis was the most frequent cause in 10.8% of patients, followed by herpes infection in 9.2%, and toxoplasmosis in 7.8%, respectively. Compared with the 2other cohorts, the present cohort showed a higher proportion of unilateral anterior uveitis. Furthermore, the patients from the Navarra series had a higher prevalence of unilateral and idiopathic uveitis compared to the series from Barcelona.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The main characteristics of the present cohort of patients with uveitis are similar to those of patients from other regions of our country. Unilateral anterior uveitis and idiopathic uveitis were the most frequent in our series.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra-B, Pamplona, Navarra, España. Electronic address: patriciafanlo@yahoo.es.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fanlo
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra-B, Pamplona, Navarra, España.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heras
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra-B, Pamplona, Navarra, España.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra-B, Pamplona, Navarra, España.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tiberio
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Enfermedades Autoinmunes, Institut Clinic de Medicina i Dermatologia, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Cataluña, España.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Espinosa
authors.affiliation: Institut Clinic d́Oftalmologia, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Cataluña, España.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Adan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015897:Comorbidity; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005260:Female; D015796:HLA-B27 Antigen / Q000032:analysis; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000453:epidemiology; D014126:Toxoplasmosis, Ocular / Q000453:epidemiology; D014605:Uveitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D015796:HLA-B27 Antigen
keywords: Aetiology; Epidemiology; Epidemiología; Etiología; HLA B27; Multidisciplinary unit; Unidad multidisciplinar; Uveitis; Uveítis