By Justine R. Smith, MD, PhD
Editor: Justine R. Smith, MD, PhD (American Uveitis Society AAO Education Liaison)
The following 10 uveitis papers published in 2009 were selected by members of the American Uveitis Society (AUS) for their outstanding teaching value for residents.
Galor A, Davis JL, Flynn HW Jr, Feuer WJ, Dubovy SR, Setlur V, Kesen MR, Goldstein DA, Tessler HH, Ganelis IB, Jabs DA, Thorne JE. Sympathetic ophthalmia: incidence of ocular complications and vision loss in the sympathizing eye. Am J Ophthalmol. 2009;148:704-710.e2. PMID: 19665105
Gangaputra S, Newcomb CW, Liesegang TL, Kaçmaz RO, Jabs DA, Levy-Clarke GA, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT, Suhler EB, Thorne JE, Foster CS, Kempen JH; Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases Cohort Study. Methotrexate for ocular inflammatory diseases. Ophthalmology. 2009;116:2188-98.e1. PMID: 19748676
Harper TW, Miller D, Schiffman JC, Davis JL. Polymerase chain reaction analysis of aqueous and vitreous specimens in the diagnosis of posterior segment infectious uveitis. Am J Ophthalmol. 2009;147:140-147.e2. PMID: 18834576
Herbort CP, Rao NA, Mochizuki M; members of Scientific Committee of First International Workshop on Ocular Sarcoidosis. International criteria for the diagnosis of ocular sarcoidosis: results of the first International Workshop On Ocular Sarcoidosis (IWOS). Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2009;17:160-9. PMID: 19585358
Kempen JH, Daniel E, Dunn JP, Foster CS, Gangaputra S, Hanish A, Helzlsouer KJ, Jabs DA, Kaçmaz RO, Levy-Clarke GA, Liesegang TL, Newcomb CW, Nussenblatt RB, Pujari SS, Rosenbaum JT, Suhler EB, Thorne JE. Overall and cancer related mortality among patients with ocular inflammation treated with immunosuppressive drugs: retrospective cohort study. BMJ. 2009;339:b2480. PMID: 19578087
Pasadhika S, Kempen JH, Newcomb CW, Liesegang TL, Pujari SS, Rosenbaum JT, Thorne JE, Foster CS, Jabs DA, Levy-Clarke GA, Nussenblatt RB, Suhler EB. Azathioprine for ocular inflammatory diseases. Am J Ophthalmol. 2009;148:500-509.e2. PMID: 19570522
Raiji VR, Palestine AG, Parver DL. Scleritis and systemic disease association in a community-based referral practice. Am J Ophthalmol. 2009;148:946-50. PMID: 19837380
Smith JA, Mackensen F, Sen HN, Leigh JF, Watkins AS, Pyatetsky D, Tessler HH, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT, Reed GF, Vitale S, Smith JR, Goldstein DA. Epidemiology and course of disease in childhood uveitis. Ophthalmology. 2009;116:1544-51, 1551.e1. PMID: 19651312
Van Gelder RN, Leveque TK. Cataract surgery in the setting of uveitis. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2009;20:42-5. PMID: 19077828
Vasconcelos-Santos DV, Zierhut M, Rao NA. Strengths and weaknesses of diagnostic tools for tuberculous uveitis. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2009;17:351-5. PMID: 19831571
An American Uveitis Society Publication
Contributors: Nisha Acharya, MD, MS; Esen K. Akpek, MD; David Callanan, MD; Emmett T. Cunningham MD, PhD, MPH; Janet L. Davis, MD; Roberto Diaz-Rohena, MD; Anthony S. Ekong, MD; David J. Forster, MD; C. Stephen Foster, MD; Rudolph M. Franklin, MD; Anat Galor, MD; Roger K. George, MD; Debra A. Goldstein, MD; Alla Golovkina-Hynes, MD; Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA; Glenn J. Jaffe, MD; Brian C. Joondeph, MD; Henry J. Kaplan, MD; John H. Kempen, MD, MPH, MHS, PhD; Paul A. Kurz, MD; Ralph Levinson, MD; Grace A. Levy-Clarke, MD; Todd P. Margolis, MD, PhD; E. Mitchel Opremcak, MD; Alan G. Palestine, MD; George N. Papaliodis, MD; Jose S. Pulido, MD; Narsing A. Rao, MD; Russell Read, MD, PhD; James T. Rosenbaum, MD; Ivan R. Schwab, MD; H. Nida Sen, MD, MHSc; Justine R. Smith, MBBS, PhD; Eric Suhler, MD, MPH; Daniel H. Spitzberg, MD; Donald U. Stone, MD; Howard H. Tessler, MD; Jennifer E. Thorne, MD, PhD; Albert T. Vitale, MD; R. Christopher Walton, MD; Russell Van Gelder, MD, PhD; Ira G. Wong, MD, MS.