• Magdalena Sotomayor Toribio, Trinidad Rueda Rueda, José Luis Sánchez Vicente, Fernando López Herrero, Margarita Cabanás Jiménez, and M Eugenia Mantrana Bermejo.
• Departamento de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, España. Electronic address: malena.sotomayortoribio@gmail.com.
• Med Clin (Barc). 2023 Aug 11; 161 (3): 107109107-109.

PurposeAnalyse and describe the anatomical and etiological classification, clinical and epidemiological characteristics and most frequent symptoms of uveitis cases in our population.Patients And MethodDescriptive, retrospective observational study of uveitis cases treated in the Ophthalmology Department of Virgen del Rocío University Hospital in 2021. The demographic and clinical characteristics were studied.ResultsA total of 109cases of uveitis were studied, 46 men and 63 women, with a mean age of 45.43±16.11 years. The most frequent symptoms were pain (74.31%), hyperemia (73.39%) and blurred vision (65.14%). The most frequent anatomical classification was anterior (55.96%), followed by panuveitis (18.35%), posterior (12.84%) and intermediate uveitis (7.34%). Regarding etiology, most uveitis were idiopathic (42.99%), followed by non-infectious (38.32%) and finally infectious (18.69%).ConclusionsIn southern España, the characteristics of uveitis are similar to other studies in Western countries.Copyright © 2023 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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