PMID- 23092091
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121218
LR  - 20151008
IS  - 0029-0203 (Print)
IS  - 0029-0203 (Linking)
VI  - 116
IP  - 9
DP  - 2012 Sep
TI  - [Incidence of uveitis in the northern Kyushu region of Japan --comparison between 
      the periods of 1996-2001 and 2003-2008].
PG  - 847-55
AB  - PURPOSE: To report the clinical statistical analysis of patients with uveitis in 
      the northern Kyushu region of Japan. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This retrospective 
      study involved 735 new patients with uveitis who visited the Kyushu university 
      hospital from January 2003 to December 2008. The subjects were classified into 
      four groups; adolescent (0-19 years), young (20-39 years), middle-aged (40-59 
      years) and old (60 years or older) and were compared with the results of our 
      previous studies. RESULT: This study comprised 343 men and 392 women. The age 
      averaged 47.2 years. Definitive diagnosis was made in 385 cases (52.4%). The most 
      frequent clinical entity was sarcoidosis (9.8%), followed by Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada 
      disease (7.9%), Behcet's disease (7.6%), acute anterior uveitis associated with 
      human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 (4.5%), herpetic iridocyclitis (3.1%), human 
      T-lymphotropic virus type I associated uveitis (HU) (2.7%), and intraocular 
      lymphoma (2.3%). The proportion of unclassified uveitis was large among females 
      in general, and among adolescents in the four groups. The incidence of secondary 
      glaucoma in the whole group of 735 patients with uveitis was 22.2%. Among the 
      patients with ocular hypertension, the proportion of steroid responders was large 
      in the adolescent group. CONCLUSION: Compared with our previous report, this 
      study shows increasing frequency of sarcoidosis and decreasing frequency of 
      Behcet's disease except in the young group. HU showed a decreasing incidence.
FAU - Hikita, Shin-Ichi
AU  - Hikita S
AD  - Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu 
      University, Fukuoka, Japan.
FAU - Sonoda, Koh-Hei
AU  - Sonoda KH
FAU - Hijioka, Kuniaki
AU  - Hijioka K
FAU - Fujimoto, Takeshi
AU  - Fujimoto T
FAU - Ito, Takako
AU  - Ito T
FAU - Ishibashi, Tatsuro
AU  - Ishibashi T
LA  - jpn
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi
JT  - Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi
JID - 7505716
RN  - 0 (HLA-B27 Antigen)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Behcet Syndrome/epidemiology
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - HLA-B27 Antigen/analysis
MH  - HTLV-I Infections/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Iridocyclitis/epidemiology
MH  - Japan/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Sarcoidosis/epidemiology
MH  - Uveitis/*epidemiology/etiology
MH  - Uveomeningoencephalitic Syndrome/epidemiology
EDAT- 2012/10/25 06:00
MHDA- 2012/12/19 06:00
CRDT- 2012/10/25 06:00
PHST- 2012/10/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/10/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/12/19 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi. 2012 Sep;116(9):847-55.