Vitreous Punctate Spots in Eyes with Intermediate and Posterior Uveitis Using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Abstract

Introduction The annual incidence of uveitis is between 17 and 52 per 1,00, 000 of the population, with up to 35% of patients reported to have significant visual impairment or legal blindness.1-5 To assess the severity of viteous inflammation in patients of intermediate and posterior uveitis, the current gold standard is the National Eye Institute (NEI) system for grading of vitreous haze.6-7 This system, often referred as the “Nussenblatt scale,” is based on the comparison of clinical findings of the patients eye on indirect ophthalmoscopy with a series of six photographs representing various degrees of fundal vitreous haze.