Sentences with phrase «treat uveitis»
«The drugs that we used in this study would be too toxic for long term use in the bloodstream, so we are now hoping to test more localised approaches such as eye drops to treat uveitis.»
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This clinical trial is the culmination of long - standing research led by Professor John Greenwood at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology showing the potential therapeutic benefits of using statins to treat autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and uveitis.
Image showing damage caused by uveitis in the untreated mouse eye (left) and the treated eye (right)
Treatment for uveitis focuses on reducing inflammation in the eye and treating the underlying medical condition.
The Equine Ophthalmology Program focuses its research in two areas: determining the cause of equine recurrent uveitis, and investigating novel methods to treat horses and deilver medications to the eye over a long period of time.
Veterinary Ophthalmology services treat complicated or difficult problems such as cataracts, corneal ulcers, Entropion, Glaucoma, prolapsed gland of the nictitans (cherry eye) and Uveitis.
Additionally, one study (Esson et al) has theorized that uveitis is not present in GRPU, based on histopathologic evaluation of eyes enucleated due to glaucoma.4 However, other authors believe that uveitis is indeed present, and that the eyes from the Esson study showed little evidence of uveitis because the eyes had been treated with anti-inflammatory medication prior to their removal.