Uveitis and acute glaucoma as first presenting symptoms of sarcoidosis in a healthy male.

Uveitis and acute glaucoma as first presenting symptoms of sarcoidosis in a healthy male.

Hallas Olivia; Yocum Andrew; Jackson Damien; Simon Erin L

The American journal of emergency medicine

2018

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Sarcoidosis is a disease that causes noncaseating granulomas in tissues such as the lungs, heart, skin, and eyes. Sarcoidosis is often found through chest x-ray or lesions in the skin and eyes. In over half of patients the disease is detected incidentally by radiographic abnormalities on a routing chest x-ray prior to development of any symptoms. The disease varies in incidence among geographic regions and can also aggregate in families. It is more common in African-Americans who have a lifetime-estimated risk of 2.4 percent compared to a lifetime risk of 0.85 percent in whites. Multiple cases have been reported on sarcoidosis with eye involvement, especially uveitis. We present a healthy

Acute angle closure glaucoma; Sarcoidosis; uveitis

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