Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Graninger, W; Arocker-Mettinger, E; Kiener, H; Benke, A; Szöts-Sötz, J; Knobler, R; Smolen, J.
High incidence of asymptomatic urogenital infection in patients with uveitis anterior.
Doc Ophthalmol. 1992; 82(3):217-221
Doi: 10.1007/BF00160768
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- Graninger Winfried
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- Abstract:
- Acute anterior uveitis (AAU) may be associated with systemic infectious or inflammatory disease. We examined 92 patients with the first attack of acute anterior uveitis; all patients were free of any extraocular symptoms. A thorough clinical examination did not reveal any systemic underlying disease. In the course of microbiological examination, however, a high incidence of asymptomatic infection of the urethra and/or cervix with ureaplasma urealyticum, chlamydia trachomatis and mycoplasma hominis was found. Infections with ureaplasma were significantly more frequent in patients with AAU when compared with a sex- and age-matched control group. There was no statistically valid association of these infections with the HLA-B27 phenotype in the patients. The higher rate of urogenital infections in patients with AAU may reflect a higher rate of sexual promiscuity. Transmission of infectious agents seems to be one possible factor in the pathogenesis of AAU.
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- Acute Disease -
- Adolescent -
- Adult -
- Cervix Uteri - microbiology
- Chlamydia Infections - microbiology
- Chlamydia trachomatis - isolation and purification
- Female - isolation and purification
- Female Urogenital Diseases - complications
- Humans - complications
- Incidence - complications
- Male - complications
- Male Urogenital Diseases - complications
- Middle Aged - complications
- Mycoplasma - isolation and purification
- Mycoplasma Infections - isolation and purification
- Ureaplasma Infections - isolation and purification
- Ureaplasma urealyticum - isolation and purification
- Urethra - microbiology
- Uveitis, Anterior - etiology
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- ANTERIOR UVEITIS
- HLA-B27
- UROGENITAL INFECTION