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Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis

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Tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (TINU) is an autoimmune oculorenal syndrome commonly diagnosed in younger aged population. Ocular manifestations of TINU can be forerunner to the renal involvement in about one-fifth of the patients and may also occur more than 1 year after the initial renal involvement in about 5% of the patients. The characteristic ocular manifestations of TINU include sudden onset bilateral nongranulomatous anterior uveitis with occasional mild vitreous cells. However, few cases with posterior involvement have been reported in the literature. The uveitis in TINU, unlike the renal involvement which commonly resolves spontaneously, is either chronic or recurrent in nature with flares occurring for ≥10 years.

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  1. Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Muhammad Hassan, Nam V. Nguyen & Yasir J. Sepah

  2. Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Spencer Center for Vision Research, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Advanced Eye Center, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

    Aniruddha Agarwal

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  1. Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. Inst. of Medical Education and Research, Advanced Eye Center, Chandigarh, India

    Aniruddha Agarwal

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Hassan, M., Agarwal, A., Nguyen, N.V., Sepah, Y.J., Nguyen, Q.D. (2018). Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Agarwal, A. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_26-1

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