If your Crohn’s flares, that doesn’t mean uveitis will. Warning signs like redness, ... Anterior uveitis, also called iritis, is the most common form and affects the front of your eye.

Aqueous flare occurs with one type of uveitis, namely, anterior uveitis or inflammation in the anterior chamber. Uveitis is a general term given to inflammation within the eye, and anterior ...

A reconsideration of anterior chamber flare and its clinical relevance for children with chronic anterior uveitis (an American Ophthalmological Society thesis). Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc . 2007;105: ...

Uveitis occurs most frequently in people ages 20 to 50, and affects men and women equally. It is estimated that more than 280,000 people in the United States are affected by uveitis each year and ...

Symptoms of a Crohn’s Flare. The severity of Crohn’s disease varies from mild to severe in different people. People do not always have symptoms of Crohn’s disease when it is in remission.

Read more about a case of a 17-year-old boy who presented with sudden-onset visual impairment--bilateral anterior uveitis--as an extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease.

DEAR DR. GOTT: I am having yet another bout of iritis, with accompanying pain and sensitivity to light. This always seems to happen when I am away from home and ...

One intriguing finding was the genetic correlation between anterior uveitis and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). IBD includes ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and microscopic colitis.

Slit-lamp biomicroscopy revealed 2+ cells, indicating active anterior uveitis (0 cells = normal, 0.5–4+ cells = abnormal scale), and laser-flare photometry measured 88 photons/ms in both eyes ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— Stress may be a modifiable risk factor for acute anterior uveitis flare-ups, according to a poster presentation here. "It was our clinical impression that many patients ...

Posterior uveitis affects the choroid, retina, and optic nerve at the back of the eye, and it's often caused by infections or autoimmune diseases such as toxoplasmosis, herpes, or Behcet's disease.