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Fuchs Uveitis Syndrome

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Intraocular Inflammation

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The disease was primarily described by Lawrence in 1843 in a report about four patients with cataract and heterochromia. Other components of the disease were published later by Weill in 1904. Ernst Fuchs published in 1904 a series of 38 patients entitled in German language “About complications of heterochromia”. Since then thousands of patients have been described, and several major reviews have been published to define and extend the clinical spectrum of this interesting disease.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Triemli Hospital Zürich, Birmensdorfer Str. 497, Zürich, CH-8063, Switzerland

    Matthias D. Becker MD, PhD, FEBO, MSc

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Interdisciplinary Uveitis Center, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

    Matthias D. Becker MD, PhD, FEBO, MSc, Eva Jakob MD & Friederike Mackensen MD, FEBO

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Becker, M.D., Jakob, E., Mackensen, F. (2016). Fuchs Uveitis Syndrome. In: Zierhut, M., Pavesio, C., Ohno, S., Orefice, F., Rao, N. (eds) Intraocular Inflammation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_86

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