Manifestaciones oculares de la sarcoidosis
- Rocha Cabrera, Pedro
- Losada Castillo, M. J.
- Rodríguez Lozano, Beatriz
- Lozano López, V.
- Serrano García, Miguel Ángel
ISSN: 0211-2698
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 24
Pages: 25-30
Type: Article
More publications in: Archivos de la Sociedad Canaria de Oftalmología
Abstract
Purpose, material and methods: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease mediated by T lymphocytes. We describe six cases of ocular sarcoidosis, and various forms of ocular presentation, in almost all cases without prior systemic symptoms or it had gone unnoticed by the patient and physician. Results: We study multiple ocular manifestations that can occur in the ocular sarcoidosis. It describes several different clinical cases presentation: vitritis and macular edema, anterior scleritis refractory to medical treatment, periphlebitis occlusive, recurrent anterior and intermediate uveitis, anterior uveitis with Koeppe nodule and finally a case of optic neuritis with multifocal choroiditis. Conclusions: Sarcoidosis has multiple forms of ocular presentation, many of these uveitis has not etiology for a long, and only a detailed history and additional tests may lead us to the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Definitive diagnosis is made by a histological finding of non-caseating granuloma.