Development of uveitis during systemic corticosteroid therapy in TINU syndrome
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Sebastiano A. G. Lava & Oliver Bucher & Barbara S. Bucher & Giacomo D. Simonetti & Sibylle Tschumi
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
Sirs, We read with interest the article of Jahnukainen and colleagues [1] who presented 26 patients with tubulointerstitial nephritis. Twelve patients (46%) presented bilateral anterior uveitis associated with tubulointerstitial nephritis, also known as tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (TINU) syndrome. One of these 12 patients developed the uveitis prior to the nephrologic disease, in six, uveitis was diagnosed within 2 weeks of the diagnosis of nephritis, and in the remaining five between 3 and 15 months after onset of the nephrologic symptoms. Despite the diagnosis of uveitis, seven patients presented no ocular symptoms.
Pediatr Nephrol (2011) 26:1177–1178 DOI 10.1007/s00467-011-1853-6 Received: 24 January 2011 / Accepted: 15 February 2011 / Published online: 13 April 2011
