Active clinical trials for "Uveitis"

Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease with unknown etiology. Chronicity of the disease is observed in 1/3 of cases. Five percent of the affected patients are expected to die due to pulmonary worsening. After pulmonary complications, ocular complications are one of the most frequent complications. In hospital setting 2 to 15% of patients who come for initial uveitis diagnosis are after examination due to Sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis diagnosis is based on paraclinical exams (biological, radiography) and histological confirmation. Corticotherapy (local or general) is usually used to cure sarcoid uveitis. In case of failure immunosuppressor or anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) can be used. In 10% of cases ocular symptoms including blindness are observed. Only treatment administrated quickly after diagnosis of sarcoid uveitis can prevent from ophthalmologic complications. The main objective of the Lyon Sarcoid Uveitis Cohort study is to analyze the relevance of the paraclinical exam for sarcoid uveitis diagnosis, and to define a better visual and extra-ophthalmologic prognosis and describe the therapeutic practice in our Department. This study is proposed to all patients diagnosed with Sarcoid uveitis with a histological confirmation and referred to the internal medicine department of the Croix-Rousse hospital, Lyon, France, for etiologic diagnosis or treatment.

Comparison of high-resolution optical coherence tomography (High-Res-OCT) to conventional imaging modalities for the diagnosis of eye diseases

A prospective, observational, case series investigating the feasibility of utilizing OCT scans of the anterior chamber of eyes with uveitis.

The German Spondyloarthritis Inception cohort (GESPIC) was started 2000 as a prospective, longitudinal, multicentre, nationwide study in Germany on patients with early SpA including ankylosing spondylitis (AS, also known as radiographic axial spondyloarthritis) and non-radiographic axial SpA. The objectives of GESPIC are to learn about the course of SpA during the very early stage of the disease, to appropriately assess the outcome including radiographic progression of patients after several years of follow-up, to identify outcome predictors, to assess quality of life, function, and costs (direct and indirect costs). GESPIC has been recently expanded to recruit patients with other forms of SpA / conditions associated with SpA: acute anterior uveitis, Crohn's disease as well as with psoriasis / axial psoriatic arthritis.

Acute and chronic inflammatory eye diseases are difficult to diagnose and maintain quiescent with therapy. Proposed study is aimed to find on the one hand, novel factors for recurrence of the disease or remission of inflammation and evaluation of the impact of lifestyle and known factors on the other. Each patient is treated in accordance to the best of medical knowledge and guidelines for each disease. This prospective cohort study will enroll uveitic patients to the steroid only group (SG), combined (steroid and adjuvant drug) group (CG) or bilogic therapy group (BTG). At baseline, patient data are recorded using patient-reported outcome measures and clinical assessments (ophthalomology) on disease activity (clinical scales), quality of life, and lifestyle together with registry data on comorbidity and medication. During follow-up evaluation of a successful treatment outcome response will be based on clinical scales and most frequently used primary endpoints; the major outcome of the analyses will be to detect differences in treatment outcome between patients in different treatment group.

In order to improve the investigators knowledge about uveitis and the underlying mechanism of disease, the investigators propose collecting blood from patients with uveitis, isolating DNA and sequencing the DNA to identify genetic mutations or associations in these patients.

Uveitis or inflammation of the uveal tract results from a heterogeneous collection of disorders of varying etiologies and pathogenic mechanisms. Uveitis is relatively frequent in industrial countries with an estimation of 115 cases for 100 000 persons and is associated with a blindness risk of 10%. Causes of uveitis can be related to different etiologies (infectious, inflammatory or general inflammatory diseases). Therapeutic care is based on ophthalmologic and systemic diagnosis and treatment strategy depends on the severity of inflammation. The main objective of the Lyon uveitis study is to analyze the uveitis ophthalmologic etiology and diagnostic and therapeutic care of the patients. This study is proposed to all patients diagnosed for uveitis and referred to the Department of Internal Medicine of the Croix Rousse hospital, Lyon, france for etiologic diagnosis or treatment. Analysis of i) patients' characteristics, ii) the relevance of complementary exams to determine the uveitis etiology, iii) treatment used. This study will allow a better characterization of the disease on diagnosis practices and therapeutic care.

This study intends to explore the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of uveitis. This is a cohort study. The outcome of the study is the activity of inflammation and visual prognosis. The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal diagnosis and treatment scheme for uveitis patients based on real-world data.

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) machines are non-contact instruments that can provide micrometer (one one-thousandths) scale imaging of biological tissue. This allows excellent assessment of the white blood and inflammatory cells seen in uveitis, an inflammation of any or all parts of the uvea (iris, ciliary body, choroid).

The aim of this single-center prospective study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Tocilizumab (TCZ), humanized monoclonal antibody against IL-6receptor, in the treatment of refractory Uveitis of Behçet's disease (BDU), to verify its effects on decreasing the dose of cortical steroids, and to determine whether it can reduce BDU recurrence.