How Should You Treat Chronic Anterior Uveitis? Staff | May 3, 2021 Review our article: "Uveitis: A Brief Primer for the Rheumatologist," The Rheumatologist, November 2020. Uveitis is an umbrella term for intraocular inflammatory diseases that can lead to vision loss. It occurs in 6–9% of patients with psoriatic arthritis and 25% of patients with reactive arthritis. The prevalence may be as high as 33% in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. If chronic anterior uveitis cannot be controlled with three or fewer drops a day of prednisolone acetate 1%, the next step would be: A. Systemic treatment with corticosteroids and methotrexate B. Systemic treatment with corticosteroids and concurrent adalimumab C. TNF inhibitor monotherapy D. Systemic corticosteroids only None Time's up
