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Cytomegalovirus Anterior Uveitis

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in immunocompetent individuals typically manifests as an anterior uveitis in contrast to immunosuppressed patients where posterior involvement predominates. CMV anterior uveitis is usually a unilateral event and may manifest as an acute episodic hypertensive uveitis or as a chronic uveitis associated with ocular hypertension.

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  1. Singapore National Eye Centre, 11 Third Hospital Avenue, 168751, Singapore, Singapore

    Aliza Jap & Soon-Phaik Chee

  2. Division of Ophthalmology, Changi General Hospital, 2 Simei Street 3, 529889, Singapore, Singapore

    Aliza Jap

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 1E Kent Ridge Road, 119228, Singapore, Singapore

    Soon-Phaik Chee

  4. Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, 8 College Road, 169857, Singapore, Singapore

    Soon-Phaik Chee

  5. Singapore Eye Research Institute, 11 Third Hospital Avenue, 168751, Singapore, Singapore

    Soon-Phaik Chee

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  1. Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Carl P Herbort Jr.

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Jap, A., Chee, SP. (2016). Cytomegalovirus Anterior Uveitis. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Herbort Jr., C. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_21-1

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