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The ocular and systemic characteristics of 160 patients with anterior uveitis and seronegative juvenile rheumatoid arthritis are reviewed. Chronic uveitis occurred in 131 patients, 76% of whom were girls. Both eyes were involved in 70% of the cases. Band keratopathy occurred in 41% of the eyes, cataract in 42%, and secondary glaucoma in 19%. Only 11 patients had uveitis before the onset of arthritis. Notable correlations included a pauciarticular onset of arthritis in 95% of the patients, and positive tests for antinuclear antibody in 82%. Of 29 patients with acute anterior uveitis, 27 were boys. The inflammation responded well to therapy, and serious complications did not occur. At follow-up 21 patients had typical ankylosing spondylitis, and five had sacroiliitis. The incidence of positive results of tests for HLA-B27 antigen was 94%.
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PMID:Anterior uveitis in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. 30 91

The radiological manifestations of 200 patients with ankylosing spondylitis were appraised, and correlated with the patient's sex, anterior uveitis, and HLA B27. Radiological findings in female patients were no different from male patients. Only syndesmophyte formation in the spine was found significantly more frequently in patients with uveitis and HLA B27. Osteoporosis of the spine correlated strongly with a later age of onset, longer duration of the disease, older age at the time of study, Romanus lesions, syndesmophytes, spinal fusion, osteitis pubis, and widespread radiological destructive peripheral joint disease. Syndesmophytes were most frequently present at the dorso-lumbar junction. Spondylodiscitis was present in 8 patients and was most commonly present in the thoracic spine.
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PMID:Radiological manifestations in 200 patients with ankylosing spondylitis: correlation with clinical features and HLA B27. 49 May 25

The clinical and radiographic features of hip disease in 76 patients with definite ankylosing spondylitis have been studied. Symptomatic hip involvement occurred late in the course of the disease, with a mean delay after the onset of 12 years in males and 7 years in females. Patients with disease onset before the age of 20 developed hip symptoms at an earlier stage. Associated diseases included uveitis (13%), colitis (4%). Bilateral concentric loss of hip joint space with a relatively undeformed femoral head was the commonest radiological change (61%). Localised loss of joint space at the upper pole (16%) was associated with femoral head destruction and a greater degree of osteophytosis, suggesting coincidental or secondary osteoarthrosis. Bony ankylosis of the hips (10%) was present only in women, and the absence of osteophytes, cysts, and bone lesions of the iliac crests and ischial rami suggests that it is a distinct radiographic manifestation of female ankylosing spondylitis.
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PMID:Clinical and radiographic features of spondylitic hip disease. 49 47

The histocompatibility antigen HLA-B27 was identified in 12 out of 33 patients with acute non-granulomatous anterior uveitis. This is a frequency of 36.36%, compared with 4.72% in controls. Seven patients had in addition evidence of systemic disease, including ankylosing spondylitis, sacroiliitis, Reiter's disease, Still's disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. Five of these were HLA-B27 positive, which suggests that the uveitis in many of these cases has a similar aetiology to the uveitis in those with rheumatic disease. It appears that the more severe cases of acute anterior uveitis are related more frequently to the presence of HLA-B27.
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PMID:HLA-B27 frequency in Greek patients with acute anterior uveitis. 56 38

The tiysue antigen HLA-B27 was present in 92.6% of 95 Swiss patients with classical ankylosing spondylitis. This tissue antigen is present in only 7.7% of healthy Swiss blood donors. 36% of all patients had one or several acute attacks of anterior uveitis. This usually follows the onset of joint symptoms. In 4% of the 95 patients the iritis was the first symptom. The combination of acute uveitis and ankylosing spondylitis with the tissue antigen HLA-B27 indicates that not only the spondylitis, but also the uveitis is in many cases genetically determined.
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PMID:[Acute iridocyclitis, ankylosing spondylitis (Bechterew) and congenital tissue antigens (author's transl)]. 56 49

The occurrence of acute anterior uveitis in ankylosing spondylitis was compared in 53 HLA-B 27 positive and 12 HLA-B 27 negative patients with this disease. Uveitis was found in HLA-B 27 positive patients only. These results suggest that uveitis and ankylosing spondylitis are independent diseases occurring on their own and strongly associated with HLA-B 27.
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PMID:Anterior uveitis in ankylosing spondylitis: a histocompatibility study. 57 80

Presented in this series were seven men and three women. Ages when seen, ranged from 32 to 68 years (average 54). Psoriasis had begun in childhood in the women and in the late 20's and 30's in the men. Arthritis (ankylosing spondylitis) was present in only one. Their ocular inflammations began from ages 26 to 62 (average 41). The onset of the inflammation was acute iritis in four and in indolent iridocylcitis in six. All but one were bilateral and chronic. The vitreous had heavy debris in nine of the ten patients. The retina was normal in only three. Boggy congestion was present in two with cystoid edema. Patches of edema. fluorescein leaking, depigmentation of both maculae, pars plana exudate, and retinal vessel obliteration to grey-white, shaggy cords was present in at least one of the remaining five patients. Systemic corticosteroid therapy has been used in eight of the ten patients described in this report. Doses no higher than 30 mg of prednisone per day were used to initiate reversal of the inflammatory response. In case 10, knowledge of the sensitivity of the process to steroids led to the successful rapid reversal of a recalcitrant iritis with only 20 mg of prednisone as a first dose and 20 mg per day for less than three weeks. Maintenance corticosteroid therapy ranged from 40 mg of prednisone every other day in case 9, prednisone 12.5 mg one day and 5 mg the next in case 8, to 8 mg of Aristocort or methylprednisolone acetate (M-edrol) daily in cases 1 and 2. In summary, these patients are older, have an indolent onset bilateral uveitis with dense vitreous debris, retinal abnormalites, and are extremely sensitive to systemic corticosteroids. Many of these patients had undergone the series of clinical evaluations known as a "uveitis survey." Many different systemic abnormalities were found and merited treatment which rarely made a difference in their ocular disease, though two improved after infected teeth were treated. Assuming that these ocular diseases were related to psoriasis, one can then challenge the value of anything found by a "uveitis survey." The author uses information gained from such studies to insure that the patient is in the best possible heatlh and then makes clinical correlations such as presented in this paper. The rarity of this combination of ocular inflammations in patients with psoriasis makes it risky to propose that this is a significant association. Arguments that this is a disease entity began with the clinical similarities: older age, indolent onset, vitreous and retinal involvement, and the extreme sensitivity to systemic corticosteroids. None of these patients had psoriatic arthritis and only one had ankylosing spondylitis. The best explanation for the fact that this disorder has not been emphasized in the past would be an attitude of ophthalmologists and physicians that the eye and skin disease were coincident.
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PMID:Psoriasis and intraocular inflammation. 57 84

Sera of children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other connective tissue diseases were tested for antibodies to native DNA by a radiolabeled-binding assay. Normal values were obtained in 130 children with JRA, including 28 with uveitis and 14 with selective IgA deficiency. Normal values were also found in sera from children with dermatomyositis, scleroderma, polyarteritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and a variety of other nonconnective tissue diseases. The only sera with elevated DNA-binding assays were from children with systemic lupus erythematosus. On the basis of these data, increased levels of antibodies to native DNA distinguished patients with active SLE from children with JRA.
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PMID:Diagnostic significance of antibody to native deoxyribonucleic acid in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other connective tissue diseases. 69 Jul 54

Some characteristics of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis that appeared in recent literature have led us to think that it can be divided into the following four groups: I. Seronegative poliarthritis, with more or less systemic symptoms. With the same characteristics it may appear in adulthood. II. Seropositive poliarthritis, identical to the adult rheumatoid arthritis. III. B-27 negative oligoarthritis, complicated frequently with chronic uveitis and autolimited course. IV. B-27 positive oligoarthritis evolving to ankylosing spondylitis. These groups may represent different diseases.
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PMID:[Juvenile rheumatoid artritis (a single or various diseases?]. 91 49

Uveitis and ankylosing spondylitis coexisted in a family. Tissue typing of the family revealed the HL-A 27 antigen in five members: two had uveitis; two had ankylosing spondylitis; and one was asymptomatic. These diseases did not coexist in any one member of the family.
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PMID:HL-A 27 antigen associated with uveitis and ankylosing spondylitis in a family. 93 48


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