Infection is a common cause of uveitis, without early recognition and treatment it leads to severe vision loss and potentially blindness. Important ocular infections include: syphilis, tuberculosis, herpes virus eye infection and toxoplasmosis.

Diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis depends on the use of multi-modal imaging. We have an active collaboration with Associate Professor Alessandro Invernizzi from the University of Milan, a world-leading ocular imaging centre.

A multidisciplinary paediatric uveitis clinic has been functional at the Children’s Hospital Westmead for eight years. The clinic team includes paediatric rheumatologists, paediatricians and several subspeciality-trained ophthalmologists.