Work up of paediatric uveitis

Abstract

AbstractAlthough children represent a minority of uveitis patients, their management represent a clinical challenge. Indeed, their visual prognosis is poorer, their examinations and investigations more difficult and there are more idiopathic cases. Some etiologies are specific of childhood uveitis, others are common between adult and paediatric uveitis, but differently distributed in these two groups. Certain, like birdshot, are never found in children (or exceptionally). The work up of uveitis in children is thus relatively different that the one performed in adults patients. These particularities of paediatric uveitis work up will be illustrate in this presentation.