Words similar to uveitis
Example sentences for: uveitis
How can you use “uveitis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Further studies of the immunologic characteristics of bronchoalveolar lavage cells from HTLV-I or -II infected humans are needed, especially in persons with a history of recurrent pneumonia or acute bronchitis but without myelopathy or uveitis.
The Blau syndrome (MIM 186580), an autosomal dominant granulomatous disease of childhood, is a rare familial granulomatous disease [ 1 ] . Affected individuals typically display one or more of the following granulomatous inflammations that have variable age-at-onset: acute anterior uveitis, arthritis, and skin rash.
Among children with pauciarticular JRA, DEK autoantibodies were significantly more common in those with JRA-associated uveitis than in those without eye disease [ 8 9 ] . DEK reactivity was also found to be strongly associated with onset of any JRA subtype before age 6 years [ 8 ] .
In addition, mice transgenic for HTLV-I p40 tax had lymphocytic infiltration of peribronchial and perivascular lung tissues associated with intrapulmonary expression of tax mRNA [ 11 ] . In general, patients with HTLV myelopathy or uveitis had more pronounced biological changes, but some of these studies also found biological changes in the lungs of asymptomatic HTLV-I carriers.
Most previous reports of HTLV-I bronchio-alveolitis reported more frequent and severe pathological and biological abnormalities of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in patients with HTLV myelopathy or uveitis compared to HTLV-I carriers without apparent disease [ 6 8 14 ] . Since our patients were without overt inflammatory disease, we cannot comment on potential pulmonary function abnormalities in patients with clinical inflammation.
Loading...