The smoking habits of 103 patients with a diagnosis of episcleritis or scleritis were evaluated. These patients were treated by one ruling protocol at the Leiden University Medical Center between 1997 ...

Rituximab may be an effective therapeutic option in the management of severe necrotizing scleritis associated with AAV. A middle-aged man was diagnosed with necrotizing scleritis associated with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Understanding the difference between scleritis and episcleritis is critical to minimizing eye pain and, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A COX-2 inhibitor can be a successful treatment alternative for diffuse anterior scleritis before the use of ...

The term scleritis describes a chronic inflammation that involves the outermost coat and skeleton of the eye. Disease can be isolated to the eye, but in up to half of affected individuals it occurs in ...

Although scleral inflammation is uncommon, accounting for only one new patient in every thousand seen in the general hospital or clinical practice, 1 it needs to be accurately diagnosed to ensure that ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Inflammatory eye diseases remain perplexing and perhaps even scary to many rheumatologists, a New York consultant rheumatologist said here. Non-uveitic ocular inflammatory diseases ...

The hallmark symptom of scleritis is pain; examination of the eye typically reveals ocular redness due to engorged scleral vessels Classification of scleritis into clinical subtypes is helpful to ...