Clinical Cases in Uveitis

Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

History of Present Illness A 54-year-old woman with history of asthma and appendiceal adenocarcinoma status post-appendectomy presented to the emergency department with 3 weeks of shortness of breath, sinus congestion, cough productive of green sputum, lower extremity edema, and general…

Leptospirosis

History of Present Illness A 33-year-old farmer from a local village in India presents for the first time to the local eye clinic complaining of blurry vision in his left eye (OS). Review of systems was positive for fever 1…

Cysticercosis

History of Presenting Illness A 9-year-old healthy Indian boy presents with a complaint of blurred vision in his right eye (OD) for a week. He denied pain or floaters. Exam OD OS Visual acuity 20/200 20/20 Intraocular pressure (IOP) 15…

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Panuveitis

History of Present Illness A 58-year-old man complains of progressive decrease in vision in both eyes (OU) over the last month. His past medical history is notable for metastatic cutaneous melanoma. He dismissed his symptoms initially, but after his vision…

MEK Inhibitor-Associated Retinopathy (MEKAR)

History of Present Illness (HPI) A 69-year-old woman with a history of cutaneous melanoma complains of a change in her vision for the last month or so. She has difficulty describing her symptoms, but she reports that things are just…

Acute Exudative Polymorphous Vitelliform Maculopathy

History of Present Illness (HPI) A 61-year-old woman with a remote history of laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) both eyes (OU) is referred to you for evaluation of posterior uveitis. She noticed a “grayish smudge” in the center, OU, starting…

Neuroretinitis

History of Present Illness (HPI) A 36-year-old woman with no past ocular history and no significant past medical history complains of increasingly blurry vision in the right eye (OD). It started 2 weeks ago with some mild blurriness that has…

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

History of Present Illness A 31-year-old healthy woman with no significant past medical history presents to the eye clinic for the first time complaining of progressively decreased vision over the last 2 weeks. She notes that it first started in…

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Retinitis

History of Present Illness Cc : Weight loss over the past 3 months, with onset of floaters OU over the past 6 weeks A 38-year-old man presents in the emergency department (ED) with blurred vision in the right eye (OD)…