Edited by:
Justine R. Smith, MD, PhD
American Uveitis Society AAO Education Liaison
The following 12 uveitis papers published in 2012 were selected by members of the American Uveitis Society (AUS) for their outstanding teaching value for residents:
Bansal R, Gupta A, Gupta V, Dogra MR, Sharma A, Bambery P. Tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis presenting as multifocal serpiginoid choroiditis. Ophthalmology. 2012;119:2334-42.
Campbell JP, Leder HA, Sepah YJ, Gan T, Dunn JP, Hatef E, Cho B, Ibrahim M, Bittencourt M, Channa R, Do DV, Nguyen QD. Wide-field retinal imaging in the management of noninfectious posterior uveitis. Am J Ophthalmol. 2012;154:908-911.e2.
Díaz-Llopis M, Salom D, Garcia-de-Vicuña C, Cordero-Coma M, Ortega G, Ortego N, Suarez-de-Figueroa M, Rio-Pardo MJ, Fernandez-Cid C, Fonollosa A, Blanco R, Garcia-Aparicio AM, Benitez-Del-Castillo JM, Olea JL, Arevalo JF. Treatment of refractory uveitis with adalimumab: a prospective multicenter study of 131 patients. Ophthalmology. 2012;119:1575-81.
Eandi CM, Neri P, Adelman RA, Yannuzzi LA, Cunningham ET Jr; International Syphilis Study Group. Acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis: report of a case series and comprehensive review of the literature. Retina. 2012;32:1915-41.
Frick KD, Drye LT, Kempen JH, Dunn JP, Holland GN, Latkany P, Rao NA, Sen HN, Sugar EA, Thorne JE, Wang RC, Holbrook JT; Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment-MUST Trial Research Group. Associations among visual acuity and vision- and health-related quality of life among patients in the multicenter uveitis steroid treatment trial. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2012;53:1169-76.
Rosenbaum JT, Ku J, Ali A, Choi D, Suhler EB. Patients with retinal vasculitis rarely suffer from systemic vasculitis. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2012;41:859-65.
Sainz de la Maza M, Molina N, Gonzalez-Gonzalez LA, Doctor PP, Tauber J, Foster CS. Clinical characteristics of a large cohort of patients with scleritis and episcleritis. Ophthalmology. 2012;119:43-50.
Sainz de la Maza M, Molina N, Gonzalez-Gonzalez LA, Doctor PP, Tauber J, Foster CS. Scleritis therapy. Ophthalmology. 2012;119:51-8.
Slabaugh MA, Herlihy E, Ongchin S, van Gelder RN. Efficacy and potential complications of difluprednate use for pediatric uveitis. Am J Ophthalmol. 2012;153:932-8.
Taylor SR, Lightman SL, Sugar EA, Jaffe GJ, Freeman WR, Altaweel MM, Kozak I, Holbrook JT, Jabs DA, Kempen JH. The impact of macular edema on visual function in intermediate, posterior, and panuveitis. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2012;20:171-81.
Udoetuk JD, Dai Y, Ying GS, Daniel E, Gangaputra S, Rosenbaum JT, Suhler EB, Thorne JE, Foster CS, Jabs DA, Levy-Clarke GA, Nussenblatt RB, Kempen JH; Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases Cohort Study Research Group. Risk of corticosteroid-induced hyperglycemia requiring medical therapy among patients with inflammatory eye diseases. Ophthalmology. 2012;119:1569-74.
Wakefield D, Abu El-Asrar A, McCluskey P. Treatment of severe inflammatory eye disease in patients of reproductive age and during pregnancy. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2012;20:277-87.
An American Uveitis Society Publication
Contributors:
Nisha Acharya, MD, MS; Levent Akduman, MD; Stephen Anesi, MD; Brian B. Berger, MD, PA; Andrea D. Birnbaum, MD, PhD; Alexander J. Brucker, MD; Bryn Burkholder, MD; Nicholas J. Butler, MD; David Callanan, MD; Janet L. Davis, MD; James P. Dunn, MD; Albert O. Edwards, MD, PhD; Anthony S. Ekong, MD; Lisa J. Faia, MD; Naomi Falk, MD, OD; Jose A. Flores-Guevara, MD; David J. Forster, MD; C. Stephen Foster, MD; Anat Galor, MD; Sunir J. Garg, MD; Paul A. Gaudio, MD; Roger K. George, MD; Debra A. Goldstein, MD; David C. Gritz, MD; David Hinkle, MD; Gary N. Holland, MD; Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA; Glenn J. Jaffe, MD; Guy V. Jirawuthiworavong, MD; Daniel A. Johnson, MD; Brian C. Joondeph, MD; Kashyap Kansupada, MD, FACS; Sanjay R. Kedhar, MD; John H. Kempen, MD, PhD; Leila I. Kump, MD; Shree K. Kurup, MD; Paul A. Kurz, MD; Daryl E. Kurz, MD; Paul Latkany, MD; Theresa G. Leung, MD; Ralph Levinson, MD; Richard A. Lewis, MD, MS; Ann-Marie Lobo, MD; Careen Y. Lowder, MD, PhD; Ramana S. Moorthy, MD, FACS; Deanne M. Nakamoto, MD; Quan Dong Nguyen, MD, MSc; Robert B. Nussenblatt, MD; Alan G. Palestine, MD; P. Kumar Rao, MD; Narsing A. Rao, MD; Russell W. Read, MD, PhD; James T. Rosenbaum, MD; Anita P. Schadlu, MD; Ivan R. Schwab, MD; H. Nida Sen, MD, MHS; Mark D. Sherman, MD; Justine R. Smith, FRANZCO, PhD; Wendy M. Smith, MD; Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH; Daniel H. Spitzberg, MD, FACS; Donald U. Stone, MD; Eric B. Suhler, MD; Byron R. Tabbut, MD; Howard H. Tessler, MD; Albert Vitale, MD; Jonathan Walker, MD; Christopher R. Walton, MD; Michael J. Weiss MD, PhD; Naomi Wiesel, MD, PhD; Susan E. Wittenberg, MD; Ira G. Wong, MD, MS