Rula A. Hajj-Ali, MD Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Disease, Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Careen Lowder, MD, PhD Cole Eye Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD Vice-Chairman of Medicine for Educational Affairs; Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Editor-in-Chief, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
Address: Brian Mandell, MD, PhD, Vice-Chairman of Medicine for Educational Affairs, NA20, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195; e-mail mandelb@ccf.org
This paper discusses therapies that are not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the use under discussion.
ABSTRACTUveitis is an inflammatory process that may affect one or several specific areas of the eye. But when a patient presents to an internist with eye symptoms, be it photophobia, "floaters," or red eye, the diagnosis is not always clear. If the diagnosis of uveitis is made, internists must search for an underlying cause, such as infection or an autoimmune disease.
