Sulfasalazine reduces the number of flares of acute anterior uveitis over a one-year period

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1277-1279

  Muñoz Fernández, Santiago ^a,b   Hidalgo, Ventura ^a   Fernández Melón, Julia ^a   Schlincker, Armelle ^a   Bonilla, Gema ^a   Ruiz Sancho, Dolores ^a   Fonseca, Agustín ^a   Gijón Baños, Juan ^a   Martín Mola, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute Anterior Uveitis; Sulfasalazine; Treatment

Indexed keywords

SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFASALAZINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS;

EID: 0038318809     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Banares A, Jover JA, Fernandez-Gutierrez B, et al Patterns of uveitis as a guide in making rheumatologic and immunologic diagnoses. Arthritis Rheum 1997;40:358-70.
2. Banares A, Hernandez-Garcia C, Fernandez-Gutierrez B, Jover JA. Eye involvement in the spondyloarthropathies. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 1998;24:771-84.
3. Dougados M, Berenbaum F, Maetzel A, Amor B. Prevention des epides d'uveite anterieure aigue des spondylarthropathies par la salazosulfapyridine. Rev Rhum 1993;60:81-3.
4. Bloch-Michel E, Nussenblatt RB. International Uveitis Study Group recommendations for the evaluation of intraocular inflammatory disease. Am J Ophthalmol 1987;103:234-5.
5. Smith JR, Rosenbaum JT. Management of uveitis. A rheumatologic perspective. Arthritis Rheum 2002;46:309-18.
6. Benitez-del-Castillo JM, García-Sánchez J, Iradier T, Bañares A. Sulfasalazine in the prevention of anterior uveitis associated with ankylosing spondylitis. Eye 2000;14:340-3.