Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Understanding the difference between scleritis and episcleritis is critical to minimizing eye pain and, ...

The smoking habits of 103 patients with a diagnosis of episcleritis or scleritis were evaluated. These patients were treated by one ruling protocol at the Leiden University Medical Center between 1997 ...

The hallmark symptom of scleritis is pain; examination of the eye typically reveals ocular redness due to engorged scleral vessels Classification of scleritis into clinical subtypes is helpful to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Inflammatory eye diseases remain perplexing and perhaps even scary to many rheumatologists, a New York consultant rheumatologist said here. Non-uveitic ocular inflammatory diseases ...

The white part of your eye (called the sclera) is a layer of tissue that protects the rest of your eye. When this area is inflamed and hurts, doctors call that condition scleritis. There isn’t always ...

A 64-year-old woman presents with a two-week history of a sore, red right eye. She describes it as a foreign-body sensation. There is no mucous discharge. On direct questioning, the vision has not ...

Inflammation of the anterior (visible) portion of the sclera. This inflammation can be diffuse (the entire circumference of the sclera is involved), nodular (presented as an inflamed nodule on the ...

We read with interest the recent paper by Boonman et al, 1 which reported a delay in response to treatment of scleritis in smokers compared with that in non-smokers. The authors postulated ...