Clinical and Epidemiological Study on Tubercular Uveitis in a Tertiary Eye Care Centre in Italy
PURPOSE:
To describe frequency, clinical characteristics, and visual prognosis of tubercular uveitis (TBU) in a nonendemic country.
METHODS:
We retrospectively reviewed 3743 charts of patients with endogenous uveitis visited from 2008 to 2018 at a tertiary referral centre in Rome, Italy. We included immunocompetent patients with diagnosis of TBU. Patients were divided in two groups: patients with history of uveitis without a previous diagnosis of TBU (group A) and patients at their first episode of TB uveitis (group B).