"Ophthalmia, Sympathetic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Granulomatous uveitis which follows in one eye after a penetrating injury to the other eye; the secondarily affected eye is called the sympathizing eye, and the injured eye is called the exciting or activating eye.
| Descriptor ID |
D009879
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C11.941.879.780.500 C20.111.709
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| Concept/Terms |
Ophthalmia, Sympathetic- Ophthalmia, Sympathetic
- Ophthalmias, Sympathetic
- Sympathetic Ophthalmia
- Sympathetic Ophthalmias
- Uveitis, Sympathetic
- Sympathetic Uveitides
- Sympathetic Uveitis
- Uveitides, Sympathetic
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ophthalmia, Sympathetic" by people in Profiles.
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Fromal OV, Swaminathan V, Soares RR, Ho AC. Recent advances in diagnosis and management of sympathetic ophthalmia. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2021 Nov 01; 32(6):555-560.
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Anderson RL, Caplan A, Schuman JS. Ethical Considerations for Performing Intraocular Surgery on Eyes with No Light Perception. Ophthalmology. 2019 01; 126(1):10-12.
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Burkholder BM, Dunn JP. Multiple serous retinal detachments seen on wide-field imaging in a patient with sympathetic ophthalmia. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2014 Oct; 132(10):1220.
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Kase S, Meghpara BB, Ishida S, Rao NA. Expression of a-crystallin in the retina of human sympathetic ophthalmia. Mol Med Rep. 2012 02; 5(2):395-9.