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Uveitis may be an immune response to fight an infection caused by an organism in the eye. They are less common than non-infectious causes and require antimicrobial/ viral/ parasitic treatment in addition to inflammatory control. Infectious causes in order of global burden include: Subretinal abscess in tubercular posterior uveitis. bartonellosis
The white dots are small and located in the posterior pole at the level of the retinal pigment epithelium. The white dots may disappear after the first few weeks of the disease. The cause is generally unknown, but a viral illness has been reported prior to multiple evanescent white dot syndrom in one-third of cases. [2]
Like a swollen tongue or swollen feet, your uvula can balloon for a number of reasons, so we tapped the experts to find the most common causes. “The uvula is the punching bag located at the back ...
yellow-white spots in the myocardium Branham's sign: Henry Branham: vascular surgery, nephrology: chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis: pressing on proximal portion of AV fistula results in bradycardia Braxton Hicks contraction: John Braxton Hicks: obstetrics: normal pregnancy "false labour". sporadic contractions beginning as early as mid 1st ...
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Certain medications have the potential to cause white spots on your nails as well. Dr. Lal says the most common medications that can do this are chemotherapy drugs and long-term antibiotics such ...
Chorioretinitis is an inflammation of the choroid (thin pigmented vascular coat of the eye) and retina of the eye. It is a form of posterior uveitis. Inflammation of these layers can lead to vision-threatening complications. If only the choroid is inflamed, not the retina, the condition is termed choroiditis. [1]
The uvea (/ ˈ j uː v i ə /; [1] derived from Latin: uva meaning "grape"), also called the uveal layer, uveal coat, uveal tract, vascular tunic or vascular layer, is the pigmented middle layer of the three concentric layers that make up an eye, precisely between the inner retina and the outer fibrous layer composed of the sclera and cornea.