Sentences with phrase «inducing uveitis»

The study, published in Cell Reports, involved giving cancer drugs to mice and inducing uveitis, an incurable autoimmune eye condition responsible for 1 in every 10 cases of visual impairment in the UK.

If lens - induced uveitis (LIU) is noted, then dependent upon the severity of the LIU, the patient may be started on prednisolone acetate 1 % suspension, dexamethasone 0.1 % solution, and / or flurbiprofen topically and carprofen or similar NSAID orally.

A common phenomenon occurs in many rapidly developing cataracts wherein the patient develops a local «allergic» type reaction to the cataract known as lens - induced uveitis.

Severe lens - induced uveitis can result in complications such as scar formation and glaucoma and can prevent cataract removal from being performed.

However, as this process occurs in hypermature cataracts, damage to the eye also occurs in the form of lens - induced inflammation (called lens - induced uveitis or LIU).

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Rapidly developing, bilaterally symmetric cataract formation in dogs is commonly associated with lenticular intumescence and subsequent phacolytic (lens - induced) uveitis.

Fourth, there is theoretical potential for inducing autoimmune disease such as uveitis and, lastly, there is incomplete knowledge of mechanisms of protective immunity against leptospiral infection.»