Nazife Şule Yaşar Bilge, Umut Kalyoncu, Pamir Atagündüz, Ediz Dalkılıç, Yavuz Pehlivan, Orhan Küçükşahin, Cemal Bes, Servet Akar, Muhammet Cinar, Hakan Emmungil, Duygu Ersözlü, Aşkın Ateş, Rıdvan Mercan, Gezmiş Kimyon, Süleyman Serdar Koca, Emel Gonullu, Veli Yazisiz, Emre Tekgöz, Nilüfer Alpay-Kanitez, Abdulsamet Erden, Sedat Kiraz, Belkıs Nihan Coskun, Burcu Yağız, Ufuk İlgen, Ömer Karadağ, Levent Kilic, İhsan Ertenli, Timuçin Kasifoglu
PURPOSE: Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a group of diseases with overlapping skeletal and extra-articular features. Acute anterior uveitis (AAU) is the most common extra-articular manifestation of SpA. The relation between AAU and SpA is well defined in the current literature. Our study aims to analyze the frequency and factors associated with AAU in different forms of SpA in a large nationwide cohort of Turkish SpA patients. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. METHODS: The data were obtained from the TReasure database, which compiles data from records of the web-based Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and SpA patients treated with biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatismal drugs from different regions of Turkey...
August 2021: American Journal of Ophthalmology