Ocular Disease: Lecture 15: Scleritis Flashcards
Scleritis
- What is it?
a. 2 types - More common in whom?
- Uni or Bi?
- Severe, Potentially sight threatening disorder
a. Mild and Benign, or Severe and destructive - Females
- Frequently Bilateral
Scleritis: Etiology
- % associated w/Systemic Disease?
- Most Common: Collagen Vascular Disease (30%) (6)
- 4 other diseases
- 50%
- RA, Ankylosing Spondylitis, SLE, Polyarteritis Nodosa, Wegener’s, Relapsing Polychondritis
- a. Herpes Zoster
b. Syphilis
c. s/p Surgery
d. Gout
Scleritis
2 types, and % of time they occur?
- Anterior (98%) and Posterior (2%)
Anterior Scleritis
Classified in to 2 groups, each with 2 things?
- Non-Necrotizing (84%)
a. Diffuse (40%)
b. Nodular (44%) - Necrotizing (14%)
a. W/inflammation
b. W/o Inflammation (Scleromalacia Perforans)
Anterior Scleritis: Diffuse Non-Necrotizing
- Benign/metastatic?
- When does it present?
- We see what w/the Sclera?
- Onset of what a Few days later?
a. May radiate to what 2 locations?
b. What does it do?
- Most BENIGN FORM
- 5th decade
- Diffuse Ocular Redness
- Deep ACHING PAIN
a. to Face and Temples
b. Wakes pt in early morning and improves throughout the day
Anterior Scleritis: Diffuse Non-Necrotizing
Signs
- Vascular Congestion and Dilation found in what 3 places?
a. What 2 other things?
b. What else is possible?
- Conj, Episclera, and Sclera
a. Local or diffuse and possible edema
b. maybe see a Bluish tint to the Sclera as Edema resolves
Anterior Scleritis: Diffuse Non-Necrotizing
Signs
- Seen in Anterior Chamber?
- Recurrence common?
Symptoms
3. What 4 things?
- Anterior Chamber Rx.
- Yes
- a. Severe BORING PAIN (radiates to orbit or head)
b. Photophobia
c. Red-Violet Eye
d. Decreased Vision
Anterior Scleritis: Nodular Non-Necrotizing
- A lot of peeps have a history of what?
- When does it tend to present (decade)?
- What happens first?
- What 2 other things?
- of HZO
- 5th decade
- Pain usually first (then Increasing redness: Possible Focal)
- a. Globe Tenderness
b. Nodule Formation
Anterior Scleritis: Nodular Non-Necrotizing
Signs
- What type of nodules do we see?
a. Where are they found?
b. Color?
c. Are they movable?
d. What could multiple nodules do? - What do we see with 2.5% phenyl?
- What happens to the Sclera as the nodule subsides?
- % that Develop Necrotizing Disease?
- Single or multiple scleral nodules
a. Interpalpebral region, 3-4 mm from the limbus
b. Deep Blue-red Color
c. Immobile
d. Can Coalesce (can become ENORMOUS) - No Blanch
- Translucent Sclera
- 10%
Anterior Scleritis: Nodular Non-Necrotizing
Symptoms
- Similar to what?
a. What 3 thigns?
- to Diffuse Non-necrotizing
a. Possible pain first, Injection generally focal, nodule is tender
Anterior Scleritis: Necrotizing w/inflammation
- How aggressive is it?
a. MOST WHAT? - Onset?
- Uni or Bi?
- Associated with what?
- % of patients that LOSE VISION?
- Can result in loss of what?
- VERY
a. MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORM of Scleritis - 6th decade
- Bilateral 60% of the time
- w/Systemic Disease 60% of the time (33% mortality w/in a few years if immune disease isn’t treated)
- 40%
- In Loss of the eye
Anterior Scleritis: Necrotizing w/inflammation
Signs
- Gradual Appearance with what?
- What gets Severely Inflamed?
a. May involve what?
b. May become what?
c. Does it Blanch with 2.5% phenyl? - What is visible?
- Painful, Local, AVASCULAR PATCH
(overlies Scleral Necrosis) - Local Tissue (sclera, episclera, conj)
a. Cornea
b. Diffuse
c. No - Underlying Uvea is Visible.
Anterior Scleritis: Necrotizing w/inflammation
Symptoms
- SEVERE, DEEP, BORING Pain: Radiates to what?
a. Disrupts what?
b. Little Improvement with what? - What happens to vision?
- to Jaw and Brow
a. Sleep
b. with analgesics - Decreased
Anterior Scleritis: Necrotizing w/o inflammation
- Tends to be seen in whoom?
- Due to Longstanding what?
- Name is a MISNOMER. Why?
- Elderly Women
- RA
- Sclera rarely perforates
Anterior Scleritis: Necrotizing w/o inflammation
Signs
- What develops Near the LIMBUS with NO VASCULAR CONGESTION?
- What Resembles HYALINE PLAQUE?
- What happens to the Sclera?
- Necrotic Scleral Plaque
- Plaques Coalesce (and resembles this)
- Slow Progressive Scleral Thinning
Anterior Scleritis: Necrotizing w/o inflammation
Symptoms
- Pain?
- Decreased vision?
- Irritation?
- None
- None
- Non-specific (may suspect dry eye)
Anterior Scleritis: Management
Non-Necrotizing
- What is used orally?
- If it’s resistant, what is used?
- NSAIDS (indomethicin)
2. Steroids. Prednisolone (60-100 mg once daily for a week, then taper to 20mg over a 2-6 wk period)
Anterior Scleritis: Management
Non-Necrotizing
- If it’s Nonresponsive, what 3 Immunosuppressive drugs can be used?
- Methotrexate
- Cyclosporine
- Azathioprine
Anterior Scleritis: Management
Necrotizing
- Tx?
- Consider what if no response?
- What’s can be done if Perforation is possible?
- Same as Non-necrotizing, but more Difficult to manage
- Hospitalization and IV Corticosteroids if no response
- Scleral Graft
Anterior Scleritis: Management
Necrotizing w/o inflammation (Scleromalacia Perforans)
- Similar Tx to what?
- Is it usually needed? Why?
- What might need to be done?
- to Other Scleritis
- No. Due to Very LATE NATURE of PRESENTATION
- Repair/Prevent Scleral Perforation
Anterior Scleritis: Complications
1. What 8 things can happen?
GP3 CUPS
- G: Glaucoma
- P: Posterior Uveitis
- P: Posterior Scleritis
- Perforation
- Cataract
- Uveitis
- Peripheral Corneal Melt
- Stromal Keratitis
Anterior Scleritis: Prognosis
- Non-Necrotizing?
- Necrotizing?
- Very Good
2. Depends on ability to manage underlying disease!!!!
Posterior Scleritis
- Why is it a serious condition?
a. USUALLY MISDIAGNOSED….leads to what? - Onset before age 40, usually in whom?
- %of cases that are Bilateral?
- Presents alongside what disease in a VERY SMALL % of CASES?
- What can occur Rapidly?
- It can potentially cause blindness
a. Late treatment - 20-30 y/o women
- 35%
- Anterior Scleritis
- Blindness
Posterior Scleritis: Signs
- What is seen in 25% of cases?
List the other 6 major signs?
- Exudative RD
- Uveal Effusion (RD + Choroidal Detachment)
- Choroidal Folds (Horizontal)
- Subretinal Mass (yellowish brown and sometimes mistaken for a choroidal tumor)
- Disc Edema (can cause slight reduction of vision)
- Proptosis (usually VERY MILD, may be associated with ptosis)
- Myositis (pain w/eye movement; can cause diplopia; tender to the touch; injection around muscle insertions)
Posterior Scleritis: Other Signs
- What 4 other signs are there?
- Glaucoma Anterior rotation of CB –> Angle Closure)
- Periorbital Edema
- Chemosis
- Conjunctival Injection
Posterior Scleritis: Symptoms
- Pain and if so, how much?
a. What does it Correlate more to? - What happens to vision?
- Mild discomfort or pain.
a. More to MYOSITIS rather than to severity - Decreased, blurred, distorted vision. Possible Photophobia
Posterior Scleritis: Etiology
- Similar Systemic Associations as what disease?
a. Especially in what age of patients?
- As Anterior Scleritis.
a. if older than 55 y/o.
* Possible that most pt’s are young and healthy….
Posterior Scleritis
- Lab workup same as what other disease?
- Ultrasound done to see what?
- What else can be done?
- as Anterior Scleritis
- Scleral Thickening; Scleral nodules; Separation of Tenon’s Capsule (T-Sign); Choroidal Folds; Retinal Detachments
- MRI/CT
Posterior Scleritis: Treatment
- Same as what?
- Refer for what findings?
- as Anterior Scleritis
2. Refer to manage any Retinal Findings
Important Systemic Conditions for Scleritis
- There are 4 of them
- RA
- Wegener Granulomatosis
- Relapsing Polychondritis
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
RA
- What disease type is it?
- What does it do?
- Seen more in whom?
- When does it present and as what?
- MOST COMMON CAUSE of WHAT EYE DISEASE?
a. Mild RA associated with what?
b. Longstanding Severe RA associated with what?
- AI disease
- Symmetrical, Destructive, deforming inflammatory condition
- Females
- 3rd decade: Joint swelling
- of Scleritis
a. Non-Necrotizing
b. Necrotizing
Wegener Granulomatosis
- What type of Granulomatous disorder is it?
- What is it exactly?
a. Predominantly Occurs where? - Happens in whom more?
- When does it present?
a. With what symptoms? - Associated with what?
- Idiopathic multisystem
- Small Vessel Vasculitis
a. Respiratory tract and Kidneys - Males
- 5th decade
a. Pulmonary Symptoms - Rapidly Progressive, Necrotizing, Granulomatous Scleritis
Relapsing Polychondritis
- Common?
- Cause?
- What is it?
- When does it present?
- Often associated with what 2 things?
- RARE
- Idiopathic
- Small Vessel Vasculitis of CARTILAGE, and it’s CHRONIC, RECURRENT SWELLING of CARTILAGE
- 5th decade
- Necrotizing and Non-necrotizing Scleritis (usually intractable)
Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Cause?
- What does it affect?
- Is it lethal?
- In whom more?
- What may be the first sign?
- Idiopathic Collagen Vascular Disease
- Medium and Small Arteries
- Potentially yes
- Males
- Ocular involvement. Precedes Systemic by several Years
Polyarteritis Nodosa
- When does it present?
- 5 Systemic Signs?
- 3 Ocular signs?
- 3-6th decade
- Arthralgia, Fever, Myalgia, Tachycardia, Weight loss
- a. Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis
b. Orbital Pseudotumor
c. Scleritis (Aggressive and Necrotizing; Milder forms possible)
Iris Coloboma
- Common?
- Uni or bi?
- What is it essentially?
- Usually found where?
- Uncommon
- Uni or Bilateral
- Defective Closure of Embryonic Fissure
- Inferonasal
Iris Coloboma: Signs
- Segmental Absence of what?
a. AKA what kind of pupil?
b. Partial Coloboma may not involve what? - Can be associated with what 5 other Colobomas?
- of Iris from Pupil to the Root
a. Key hole pupil
b. the Root - a. Choroidal
b. Ciliary Body
c. Lens
d. Optic Nerve
e. Retinal Colobomas
Iris Coloboma
- Symptoms
a. May be what?
b. What could u see? - Treatment
a. Manage what error?
b. Evaluate for what anomalies?
c. May need a specialized Contact Lens: why?
- a. Asymptomatic
b. Possible Glare, halos - a. Refractive Error
b. other congenital anomalies
c. Cosmesis; and to get rid of Visual Symptoms associated w/enlarged distorted pupil