S Kellett, H Petrushkin, J Ashworth, A Connor, E McLoone, C Schmoll, S Sharma, E Agorogiannis, J Williams, J Choi, A Injarie, N Puvanachandra, P Watts, A Shafi, E Millar, V Long, A Kumar, E Hughes, A Ritchie, J Gonzalez-Martin, A Pradeep, S Anwar, K Warrior, B Muthusamy, R Pilling, J Benzimra, A Reddy, K Bush, D Pharoah, K Falzon, U O'Colmain, R Knowles, V Tadic, A Dick, J Rahi, A L Solebo
Prompt detection of childhood uveitis is key to minimising negative impact. From an internationally unique inception cohort, we report pathways to disease detection.UNICORNS is a national childhood non-infectious uveitis study with longitudinal collection of a standardised clinical dataset and patient reported outcomes. Descriptive analysis of baseline characteristics are reported.Amongst 150 recruited children (51% female, 31% non-white ethnicity) age at detection ranged from 2-18yrs (median 10). In 69%, uveitis was diagnosed following onset of symptoms: time from first symptoms to uveitis detection ranged from 0-739days (median 7days), with longer time to detection for those presenting initially to their general practitioner...
October 2023: BMJ Open Ophthalmology