Uveitis leprosy patients who got inactive condition in pre-who/mdt era

摘要

Among the various ocular diseases caused by leprosy, complications of the uveal tissue are considered to be the leading coursed of blindness. Apart from uveitis relating to active leprosy, the occurrence of uveal inflammation long after the disease becomes inactive s defined by standard criteria is also well known. In Japan leprosy has almost been eradicated, but doctors frequently see the inflammatory conditions in anterior chambers of leprosy patient even though their disease has long been quiescent. Our study examined the cases of on-going uveitis in patients whose leprosy had been quiescent for more than 10 years.