Do you REALLY know what an autoimmune disease is? Many immune diseases affect sight and eye related quality of life but few are truly autoimmune. The innate and adaptive immune systems play a role, as do microbes around the eye and elsewhere. By understanding a few important concepts around the inflammatory disease spectrum, you can have a meaningful impact on eye health.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the impacts of the most important systemic autoimmune cause of blindness
- Describe the impacts of the most important systemic autoinflammatory causes of blindness
- Recognising when eye inflammation is autoimmune versus autoinflammatory versus infective
- Initiating and maintaining management or referring appropriately
- Understanding when to use which steroids and when to avoid them
- Understanding and managing microbes - to kill, control or nurture
