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Search the Medical Literature: Autoimmune Uveitis and Its Treatment
This section is designed to help you search the medical literature using the resources of the National Library of Medicine. Use the links below to brose the medical literature on autoimmune uveitis and its treatment, or create your own searches by going to www.PubMed.gov
Overview:
Autoimmune uveitis is a treatable condition that may require the use of systemic immunomodulatory medication to halt it’s progression. Although corticosteroids remain the primary initial treatment for patients with uveitis, use of non-corticosteroid immunomodulatory agents in selected patients with uveitis allows for improved control and decreased risk of corticosteroid-induced side effects. A new paradigm for treating ocular inflammation has been pioneered by C. Stephen Foster, M.D. at Harvard Medical School and the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation. This treatment paradigm is based on a limited tolerance to corticosteroid use and a more proactive approach to corticosteroid-sparing immunomodulatory therapy in an effort to induce a durable remission of ocular inflammatory disease off all corticosteroids.
- Treatment of Ocular Inflammation in Children
- Treatment algorithms
- Finding specialist resources for treatment
Review Articles:
- Intraocular inflammation in autoimmune disease
- Autoimmune uveitis (related articles)
- Use of immunosuppressive agents in uveitis (related articles)
General Pub Literature Searches
- Lit search: Uveitis
- Lit search: Pediatric uveitis
Disease Specific Literature Searches
- Lit search: Birdshot [Birdshot Chorioretinopathy]
- Lit search: Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada’s Disease
Immunomodulatory Therapy for Treatment of Autoimmune Uveitis
- Review article: Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy in Uveitis
- Lit search: Immunomodulatory treatment (IMT)
- Lit search: Biologics
- Lit search: Enbrel (this medication is not recommended for treatment of uveitis)
- Lit search: Remicade (Infliximab)
- Lit search: Methotrexate
- Lit search: CellCept (Mycophenolic acid or mycophenolate)
- Lit search: Chlorambucil (Leukeran)
- Lit search: Corticosteroids
- Lit search: Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan, Neosar)
- Lit search: Cyclosporine
- Lit search: Daclizumab (Zenapax)
- Lit search: Humira (Adalimumab)
- Lit search: Intravenous immunoglobulin (gamma globulin, IgG, IV-IgG)
- Lit search: Monoclonal antibody
- Lit search: Steroid Implant for posterior uveitis