Multimodal imaging in pediatric uveitis

Fitz Gerald I Diala; Kayne McCarthy; Judy L Chen; Edmund Tsui

doi:10.1177/25158414211059244

Multimodal imaging in pediatric uveitis

Ther Adv Ophthalmol. 2021 Dec 6:13:25158414211059244. doi: 10.1177/25158414211059244. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Fitz Gerald I Diala¹, Kayne McCarthy², Judy L Chen³, Edmund Tsui⁴

Affiliations

¹ UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Ma¯noa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
³ UCLA Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴ UCLA Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 200 Stein Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7003, USA.

Abstract

Pediatric uveitis accounts for up to 10% of all uveitis cases, so special attention must be paid to ensure early diagnosis as well as treatment and follow-up of these young patients in order to decrease the risk of possible ocular complications and consequently vision loss. Multimodal imaging has been an effective and important adjunct in the diagnoses and management of uveitis, especially in children. Reviewed here are the currently utilized modalities, advances, as well as their applications in juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis, pars planitis, retinal vasculitis, tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis syndrome, Behçet disease, Blau syndrome, and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome.

Keywords: fluorescein angiography; fundus photography; indocyanine green angiography; optical coherence tomography; uveitis.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

T32 GM008042/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States