Pediatric uveitis

Abstract

Pediatric uveitis is important for clinicians due to various clinical presentations, the risk of ambliyopia and the limitation of treatment modalities. Childhood uveitis is often recognized during routine eye examination and may cause severe complications because of the limitation of treatment modalities. The patients are encountered with severe complications such as glaucoma, cataract, amblyopia and band keratopathy in the period which is passing by waiting for the development of tolerance to inflammation or follow-up with suboptimal treatment. In this review, the main causes of childhood uveitis and the treatment aproaches are discussed.