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  • Title: Sympathetic ophthalmia: visual results with modern immunosuppressive therapy.
    Author: Hakin KN, Pearson RV, Lightman SL.
    Journal: Eye (Lond); 1992; 6 ( Pt 5)():453-5. PubMed ID: 1286704.
    Abstract:
    Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare bilateral panuveitis that follows penetrating injury to one eye. The use of systemic corticosteroids has transformed the prognosis, and good acuity in the sympathizing eye can now be achieved. The use of immunosuppressive drugs, such as cyclosporin and azathioprine, in combination with the steroids, allows control of the intraocular inflammation at a much lower steroid dose, with concomitant reduction in the systemic side effects that accompany the use of systemic steroids.
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