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01-10-2010
Editorial: Fuchs’ uveitis: from Imperial Vienna to global appraisal
Published in: International Ophthalmology | Issue 5/2010
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At the beginning of the last century, a uveitis entity linked to heterochromia was identified. It was first described in 1902 by Ernst Fuchs, working in Habsburg Imperial Vienna, in these terms: “When the colours of both eyes are different, it can happen that in one of the two eyes, always in the eye with the brighter iris, a cataract develops. In addition these brighter eyes present also a chronic cyclitis with corneal keratic precipitates” [1]. This observation was published in 1902 in the 9th edition of Ernst Fuchs’ ophthalmology textbook (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1
First mention of the association of heterochromia, cataract and cyclitis. a Hard cover of 9th edition of Ernst Fuchs’ textbook published in 1902, where the triad of heterochromia, cataract and cyclitis was mentioned for the first time. b In his 1906 article, Fuchs cites the text of the 1902 edition of his textbook on the triad of heterochromia, cataract and cyclitis
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