Fact Sheets

These Uveitis Information Group fact sheets are provided in PDF format so that they can easily be printed out or saved to your computer.

This area of the Uveitis Information Group is  in the process of being brought up-to-date.   If the information is not available at UIG we have used Factsheets from  Patient Plus  where we can and  linked  to a US equivalent website for the other relevant ones.    As soon as the  Uveitis Information Group’s Fact sheets on drugs are published we will include the relevant ones here.

UIG Fact Sheets

  1. About Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
  2. Dexa Scan
  3. Electroretinography
  4. Ophthalmic Angiography
  5. What is an OCT scan?

Patient Plus Fact Sheets

  1. Patient  information for Steroid tablets
  2. Patient information for Azathioprine
  3. Patient information on Cyclosporin
  4. Patient information on Mycophenolate mofetil
  5. Patient information for Tacrolimus
  6. Patient information about vitamin D calcium supplement

Facts Sheets from US Drug information sites

  1. Patient information about Adalimumab (Humira)
  2. Patient information about Infliximab
  3. Patient information about Ivig

These are links to leaflets which have been produced by Moorfields Hospital.  They are intended to inform and educate people who have been diagnosed with Birdshot about some of the tests and some of the possible complications.

Moorfields Hospital leaflet about having a cataract operation

Moorfields Hospital leaflet about laser treatment for macula oedema

Moorfields Hospital leaflet on steroid injections

 

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