CHICAGO — Rheumatologists should make greater efforts to collaborate with ophthalmologists to better care for patients with inflammatory and systemic eye diseases such as uveitis and scleritis, according to Jim T. Rosenbaum, MD, chief of the division of arthritis and rheumatic diseases at Oregon Health & Science University.
However, the other side of that equation is that rheumatologists must gain a better understanding of these diseases, he said.
“Ophthalmologists are not comfortable with immunosuppression, with very few exceptions,” Rosenbaum told attendees at the 2019
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