Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9570
ISSN: 2155-9570
Department of Health Sciences and Rheumatology/Ultrasonography, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Case Report
Assessment of Uveitis and Complications by Ultrasound in
Comparison with Optical Coherence Tomography in Psoriatic Arthritis using Etanercept
Author(s): Jose Alexandre Mendonca*, Vanessa Felix Nascimento Coelho, Heitor Santos Nogueira, Livia Garcia Biselli and Luciana Bertoldi Nucci
Introduction: Ocular Ultrasonography (US) can be an important dynamic method in evaluating the inflammatory
process of the vitreous humor and its complications in patients with arthritis.
Objectives: To detect uveal changes as well as complications by B-mode US and compare them with Optical
Coherence Tomography (OCT) in a patient with Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) using a soluble anti-Tumor Necrosis
Factor (TNF) receptor.
Case presentation: This clinical case included a 64-year-old Caucasian female patient diagnosed with PsA. The
patient reported that her visual acuity worsened 3 years ago, with tearing, a sensation of sand, ocular pain, with
redness, bilaterally, using methotrexate and etanercept for 18 months. Biometry was used for ophthalmological
clinical assessment, US with a 12 MHz high-frequency li.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-9570.23.14.964