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Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of psoriatic arthritis-related uveitis in Madrid, Spain
Víctor Aguado Casanova1, Beatriz Ventas1, Jaime Arroyo Palomo2
1Ophthalmology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, IRYCIS, Carretera de Colmenar Km 9,100, 28034, Madrid, Spain.
Purpose:
To describe the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) related uveitis in Madrid, Spain.
Methods:
A case series nested in a retrospective single-center cohort of 494 patients with PsA was performed. Patients older than 18 years old whit a clinical diagnosis PsA-related uveitis who attended the Ramon y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid, Spain, between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019 were included in the study. Epidemiological and clinical data were retrieved from the electronic medical records.
Results:
Thirteen cases of psoriatic arthritis-related uveitis (6 men and 7 women) were included. PsA-related uveitis showed an incidence of 0.05 cases per 100,000 persons/year (CI95 0.00-0.35), and a prevalence of 2.19 cases per 100,000 persons (CI95 1.24-3.79). The prevalence of active uveitis in the cohort of PsA patients was 2.6%. The first episode of uveitis (mean age of 48.15 ± 15.41 years) was anterior and unilateral in 92.31% of the cases. Most of the patients had a recurrent course (69.2%) with 0.92 flare-ups per patient/year (CI95 0.85-0.96). The uveitis preceded the diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis in 62.5% of the patients. In patients with PsA-related uveitis, HLA-B27 was present in 23.1%, HLA-Cw6 in 7.7%.
Conclusions:
Uveitis is a PsA manifestation that affects roughly 1 in 37 PsA patients, and that may precede the articular symptoms. It generally presents as a unilateral acute anterior uveitis and has a recurrent course. The most frequent observed complications are elevated intraocular pressure and cataracts.
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