Inflammatory Ocular Disease in US Veterans Save

A retrospective review of 1285 US male veterans showed the prevalence of inflammatory eye disease to be 2%. Uveitis was most common (most being anterior uveitis), followed by keratitis, scleritis, episcleritis, and acute ischemic optic neuropathy. Ocular inflammation was most likely with GPA (1/8), sarcoid (9/198), giant cell arteritis (2/68), and rheumatoid arthritis (11/576). In one-third of patients ocular inflammation preceded the systemic inflammatory disorder.