http://doi.org/10.31288/oftalmolzh202014953

Received: 18 November 2019; Published on-line: 21 February 2020

Post-Streptococcal Uveitis  

Konovalova N.V., Dr. Sc. (Med.); Savko V.V., Dr. Sc. (Med.); Khramenko N.I., Cand. Sc. (Med.);  Guzun O.V., Cand. Sc. (Med.); Slobodianyk S.B., Cand. Sc. (Med.); Zhuravok Iu.A., Cand. Sc. (Med.); Savko V.V., Jr., Cand. Sc. (Med.)

SI “Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the NAMS of Ukraine”;  Odesa Ukraine)

TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Konovalova NV, Savko VV, Khramenko NI, Guzun OV, Slobodianyk SB, Zhuravok IuA, Savko VV Jr. Post-streptococcal Uveitis. J.ophthalmol.(Ukraine).2020;1:49-53. http://doi.org/10.31288/oftalmolzh202014953

 

Post-streptococcal uveitis refers to the most severe inflammatory conditions of the eye. It often affects young people leading to incapacity for work and physical disability. The clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of uveitis after a streptococcal infection are described in the paper.  

Keywords: uveitis, streptococcus, diagnosis, treatment

 

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