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01-10-2011 | Case Report

Uveitis preceding Crohn’s disease by 8 years

Authors: Maria Pia Paroli, Giovanni Spinucci, Alice Bruscolini, Maurizio La Cava, Irene Abicca

Published in: International Ophthalmology | Issue 5/2011

Abstract

We report the clinical history of a child affected by Crohn’s disease in which uveitis precedes intestinal involvement by years and occurs with the atypical features of anterior chronic inflammation complicated by unilateral optic disc edema, rather than recurrent anterior uveitis with sudden onset which has been more widely reported in inflammatory bowel diseases. The uveitis onset occurred 8 years before symptoms of the primary intestinal disease, while in inflammatory bowel diseases the intestinal inflammation typically precedes ocular symptoms, and ocular inflammation only occasionally precedes inflammatory involvement of the bowel.

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Title: Uveitis preceding Crohn’s disease by 8 years
Authors: Maria Pia Paroli
Giovanni Spinucci
Alice Bruscolini
Maurizio La Cava
Irene Abicca
Publication date: 01-10-2011
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: International Ophthalmology / Issue 5/2011
Print ISSN: 0165-5701
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2630
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-011-9470-8

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Uveitis preceding Crohn’s disease by 8 years

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