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There are many disorders inherent to the eye and others that are manifestation of systemic disease. The richly vascular uvea provides the connection from the body to the eye. Inflammation due to infection and autoimmune disease will manifest in the different parts of the uvea with secondary effects on other parts of the eye. Identification of the uveitides is challenging, and efforts are being made to standardize the categories of uveitis in efforts to create a systematic approach to this wide group of disorders. Because of the highly subjective nature of describing this group of diseases and the difficulty of optimal examinations in certain diseases, optical coherence tomography has provided an efficient, noninvasive way to identify and monitor one of the leading causes of vision loss in uveitis patients, macular disease.
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Lee, J. (2016). Uveitis. In: Girach, A., Sergott, R. (eds) Optical Coherence Tomography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24817-2_7
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