If the cause is unclear, uveitis might be considered an autoimmune disease affecting one or both eyes. Uveitis needs immediate treatment to avoid long-term problems like vision loss. If you ...

A new study led by Thomas Jefferson University researchers has revealed insights into how the eye handles inflammation, particularly in autoimmune uveitis, an inflammatory disease that bypasses ...

TNF-α is a proinflammatory cytokine produced by various cells including macrophages and neutrophils and exacerbates immune diseases including uveitis. [5–9] TNF-α production in peripheral ...

Patients undergoing BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy for melanoma more commonly experience VKH-like uveitis compared with other malignancy types.

When all three areas are inflamed, it's called panuveitis. Many things can cause uveitis, from infection and injury to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Left untreated, inflammation can cause ...

uveitis refers to a group of heterogeneous diseases that share the features of intraocular inflammation but whose etiologies include idiopathic autoimmune disease, infections, rheumatologic ...

The NEI’s Reiko Horai, Rachel Caspi, and their colleagues used a mouse model prone to developing uveitis and found that the animals ... to show the potential of the microbiome to induce an autoimmune ...

A significant driver for the anterior uveitis market is the rising prevalence of autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases occur when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells and ...