Uveitis and spondyloarthritis: Prevalence and relationship with joint disease Uveíte das espondiloartropatias: Prevalência e relação com doença articular
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Artigo de revisão
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2007
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
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4
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Skare T.L.
Silva T.O.
Pastro P.C.
Silva T.O.
Pastro P.C.
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Purpose: To study uveitis prevalence in the local population with spondyloarthritis and its temporal relationship with joint complainis. Methods: We reviewed seventy-seven charts of spondyloarthropathy patients from the rheumatology clinic of the "Hospital Universitirio Evangélico de Curitiba" for spondyloarthritis class, patients' sex and age, occurence of uveitis and its location and relationship between the first episode of uyeitis and initial joint complaints. Results: Uveitis was found in 12 of 77 patients (15.6%) which was anterior in 83.3% of the cases, without preference for spondy-loarthropathy class (p=0.72) and, patients sex (p=0.74). In patients with reactive arthritis, the mean time between uveitis. appearance and joint complaints was 4.04 months and in ankylosing spondylitis 73 months (p=0:009). Conclusion: Spondyloarthropathy-patients have uyeitis that is anterior in most of the cases and that appears earlier in reactive arthritis than in ankylosing spondylitis.