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Ophthalmology podcast – Unravelling the hidden complexities of Acute Anterior Uveitis, what the eye is trying to tell you

Published May 13th 2024
by NASS

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Host Lucy Davies meets with Dr Nima Ghadiri, Consultant Ophthalmologist at Royal Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Professor Karl Gaffney, Consultant Rheumatologist at Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who is Chair of the British Society for SpondyloArthritis (BRITSPA). Nima and Karl discuss the links between Uveitis and axial SpA, how ophthalmologists can recognise axial Spa in their patients and how closer working between ophthalmology and rheumatology can help reduce the delay to diagnosis in axial SpA.

Ophthalmology podcast – Unravelling the hidden complexities of Acute Anterior Uveitis, what the eye is trying to tell you

Ophthalmology podcast – Unravelling the hidden complexities of Acute Anterior Uveitis, what the eye is trying to tell you

Symptoms starting slowly

Pain in the lower back

Improves with movement

Night time waking

Early onset (under 40)