Nisha Acharya
WASHINGTON — Immunosuppression therapies are becoming more popular in ophthalmology and can be used to treat common conditions such as scleritis and peripheral ulcerative keratitis, according to a speaker here.
“The important thing with these conditions is that 50% of the time there is an associated systemic autoimmune disease, usually a vasculitic condition, and so for that reason I think systemic therapy has a critical role. We know that in these conditions there are a number of infiltrating cells in the blood vessels and in the ocular tissues. (Read more...)
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