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Crohn’s Disease-Associated Uveitis

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Crohn’s disease (CrD) is a chronic relapsing multisystem disease that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract. In addition to inflammatory bowel disease, CrD may be associated with weight loss, growth impairment, and other extraintestinal manifestations such as arthritis and erythema nodosum. Uveitis is an important extraintestinal association of CrD that can affect 3–12 % of the patients. Uveitis associated with CrD most commonly presents with anterior segment manifestations such as scleritis, keratitis, anterior uveitis, and corneal ulcers. Posterior segment involvement is less common and can present with retinal vasculitis, choroiditis, and optic neuritis, among others. The treatment of CrD-associated uveitis includes systemic corticosteroids and/or immunosuppressive agents. The following chapter describes a number of cases of CrD-associated uveitis presented with protean manifestations.

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  1. Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Waltham, MA, USA

    Buraa Kubaisi & C. Stephen Foster

  2. Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Laura Kopplin & James T. Rosenbaum

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 985540 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198-5540, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  4. Advanced Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Aniruddha Agarwal

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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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Kubaisi, B., Kopplin, L., Agarwal, A., Rosenbaum, J.T., Foster, C.S., Nguyen, Q.D. (2016). Crohn’s Disease-Associated 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_86-1

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