Rituximab may be an effective therapeutic option in the management of severe necrotizing scleritis associated with AAV. A middle-aged man was diagnosed with necrotizing scleritis associated with ...

Patients with scleritis do not generally respond to topical medications, such as corticosteroids or NSAIDs. Nevertheless, a minority of patients are convinced that an eye drop such as prednisolone ...

A recent study, which followed 257 patients in Japan for an average of five years, showed that the presence or absence of invasive nodules in pancreatic cysts is key to assessing whether these ...

The clinical data for each patient are summarised in table 1. The ocular diagnoses included diffuse scleritis (n=4), nodular scleritis (n=2), sclerouveitis (n=2) and scleritis associated with ...

Endogenous IS is an uncommon clinical entity and often resembles or is misdiagnosed as noninfectious diffuse, nodular, or necrotizing scleritis. Scleritis secondary to systemic infections such as ...

When this area is inflamed and hurts, doctors call that condition scleritis. There isn’t always an obvious reason it happens, but most of the time, it’s caused by an autoimmune disorder (when ...

Many people with nodular episcleritis have an associated systemic disease. In some cases of episcleritis, scleritis may develop, an inflammation of the sclera that can cause intense pain and loss of ...

imageFigure 1 Image of both eyes showing nodular anterior scleritis in the nasal region of the right eye. open_in_new imageFigure 2 Renal biopsy with immunofluorescence staining showing granular ...

Incidental lung nodules are common findings on chest CT and in high-risk groups are more likely to be a sign of early-stage lung cancer. Because most previous research on the prevalence and size ...

Metallic nodules scattered across the seabed in the Indian and Pacific oceans are a source of oxygen for nearby marine life – a finding that could upend our understanding of the deep ocean.