Review Article
Uveitis in the Aging Eye: Incidence, Patterns, and Differential Diagnosis
Table 4
Most common diagnosis of uveitis in elderly patients.
| | Study | Most common | Second common | Third common |
| | Lebanon 2014 [21] | Idiopathic uveitis (5/18) | HSV (5/18) | TB (3/18) | | Colombia 2009 [25] | Toxoplasmosis (10/55) | Idiopathic uveitis (9/55) | HSV (5/55) | | Saudi Arabia 2009 [26] | AAU (14/51) | HSV(8/51) | TB (7/51) | | Turkey 2005 [34] | Idiopathic uveitis (34/50) | HSV (3/50) | Sarcoidosis (2/50) | | Japan 2005 [42] | Idiopathic uveitis (53/82) | Sarcoidosis (9/82) | HSV (7/82) | | France 2003 [43] | Idiopathic uveitis (40/80) | HSV/VZV (10/80) | Birdshot (10/80) | | Saudi Arabia 2002 [39] | AAU (5/18) | TB (5/18) | HSV (3/18) | | France 2000 [16] | Idiopathic uveitis (5/19) | Sarcoidosis (3/19) | Lymphoma (2/19) | | USA 1998 [17] | Idiopathic uveitis (43/138) | HSV (16/138) | Sarcoidosis (11/138) | | Finland 1994 [18] () | AAU (118/191) | Idiopathic uveitis (21/191) | Sarcoidosis (2/191) | | UK 1994 [20] | Idiopathic uveitis (55/71) | IDDM 5/71 | Sarcoidosis (3/71) |
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AAU: acute anterior uveitis, HSV: herpetic simplex virus, TB: tuberculosis, VZV: Varicella Zoster virus, IDDM: insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
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