If you have uveitis, your eye doctor can help save you from blindness. But first, they need to figure out if you have it. Here’s how.

Use a microscope and a thin beam of light to check different parts of your eye. This is called a slit lamp exam. They may dilate your eyes or use a special dye to make certain parts easier to see ...

Slit Lamp Exam/Biomicroscopy: A slit-lamp examination is a non-invasive test which examines the front and back parts of the eye and can detect any changes associated with uveitis.

OCT detected cells in all 15 eyes with corneal edema in which slit lamp grading was not possible (Figure 2). Ten of 15 eyes (66.6%) had herpetic keratouveitis, and five eyes (33.3%) had ...

A slit lamp exam is used to check your eyes for any diseases or abnormalities. Find out how this test is performed and what the results mean.

Uveitis is the most common extra-articular manifestation of the HLA-B27-positive spondyloarthropathies, occurring in 30-50% of cases. [1, 2] The typical clinical characteristics of HLA-B27 ...

The BD 900 slit lamp demonstrated a sensitivity of 87.5% and specificity of 71.5%.

Slit-lamp examination revealed a severe right haemorrhagic hypopyon anterior uveitis, large granulomatous keratic precipitates (Figure 1) and an intraocular pressure of 22 mm Hg.