Uveitis, or inflammation of the uvea, is related to a wide variety of etiologies viz. infectious, noninfectious, and masquerade diseases. Diagnosis and treatment of the underlying disease are crucial for treating the ocular disease and, more importantly, may be life-saving. Uveitis, although a rare disease in comparison to cataract and glaucoma, produces diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to all ophthalmologists including uveitis specialist. One of the major diagnostic challenges in uveitis is to differentiate a uveitic from a non–uveitic conditions. We, as an ophthalmologist often over treat or under treat such conditions which leads to a devastating outcome in clinical practice which could have been prevented with meticulous attention, history taking and diagnostic approach. In this video, we are highlighting such common mistakes in uveitis which we often come across in our clinics to alert the treating ophthalmologist in management of uveitis.
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