BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Euretina congress, Bart Leroy, MD, PhD, speaks about the overlapping features of uveitis and inherited retinal dystrophies.
The substances that are liberated into the intercellular space because of cell death provoke a low-grade inflammation that can be interpreted as uveitis, Leroy explained.
He discussed clues to differentiate between inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD)-related and uveitis-related manifestations and explained what genes are involved to clarify the diagnosis at a molecular level.
“When you see a case of