faq_category: UVEA

Uveitis can flare up with inadequate treatment, stress, or underlying systemic disease. Proper maintenance treatment with systemic immunosuppression in the form of pills, after initial control of uveitis, is essential to prevent flare-ups.

Uveitis is an inflammatory eye condition often related with an autoimmune disease. Although stress as such does not cause uveitis, it can worsen an attack or cause the relapse of the disease.

Uvea is made of 3 structures: Iris, ciliary and Choroid. The iris is at the front of the eye, the ciliary body which helps the lens to focus and keep it healthy and the choroid is a group of blood vessels passing essential nutrients to the retina.

The middle layer of the eyeball is called uvea, it lies beneath (sclera) the white part of the eye. It looks like a grape with reddish-blue color when dissected. It is made of the Iris, the ciliary body and the choroid.

The constituents of uvea of the eye are Iris (colored part of the eye) the choroid layer (layer of the blood vessel and connective tissue between the retina and the sclera) and the ciliary body which secretes aqueous humor (the transparent liquid which maintains the eye pressure) into the eye.