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Posterior Uveitis Causes

Chororetinitis with vitritis

  • Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) (HSV, VZV, CMV)
  • Birdshot choroidopathy (vitiliginous chorioretinitis)
  • Diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis (DUSN)
  • Cysticercosis
  • Infectious endophthalmitis
  • Lymphoma
  • Multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Progressive outer retinal necrosis (PORN)
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Sympathetic ophthalmia
  • Syphilis
  • Toxocariasis
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome (VKH)

Chorioretinitis without vitritis (usually)

  • Neoplastic (metastasis)
  • Ocular histoplasmosis
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Serpiginous choroidopathy
  • White dot syndromes:
    • Acute multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (AMPPE)
    • Acute retinal pigment epithelitis (ARPE)
    • Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS)
    • Punctate inner choroiditis PIC

Vasculitis

  • Beçhet syndrome
  • Systemic lupus erythematosis
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Wegener granulomatosis