Abstract
The Laser Flare-Cell Meter allows noninvasive quantitative measurement of aqueous flare in human eyes. In this study we analysed changes of aqueous flare in eyes with sympathetic ophthalmia under immunosuppressive treatment. Two men (54- and 59-year-old) with sympathetic ophthalmia (histological examination of the enucleated eyes confirmed the clinical diagnosis) were examined regularly with the Laser Flare-Cell Meter (Kowa). According to the flare values the dose of immunosuppressive treatment with cyclosporin A and prednisolone was gradually titrated. Under immunosuppressive treatment flare values of patient 1 normalized within 21 months. The dose of immunosuppressive treatment was carefully reduced according to flare values. Patient 2 showed very high flare values before treatment, which decreased to flare values of 20 flare counts/ms within 5 months of treatment with cyclosporin A and prednisolone. Both patients stopped immunosuppressive treatment because of systemic side-effects. Thereafter flare values increased acutely and a recurrence of sympathetic ophthalmia was observed in both patients. Under renewed immunosuppressive treatment aqueous flare values decreased again. Measurement of aqueous flare with the LFCM appears to be an effective tool for follow-up examinations, and especially for titrating of immunosuppressive treatment in eyes with manifest sympathetic ophthalmia.
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