What is Posterior Uveitis?
Uveitis is an inflammation of the inside of the eye, specifically the layer of the eye called the uvea. (See What is Uveitis? fact sheet). Nowadays the term is used to describe inflammation that affects both the uvea and other structures inside the eye such as the retina. The terms ‘Intra-Ocular Inflammation’ or ‘Ocular Inflammatory Disease’ are often come across as alternative names to uveitis. Uveitis is an ‘umbrella’ term for several quite different conditions. These conditions are so diverse that they can be classified, or put into groups, in a number of different ways: Examples are: • Infectious or non-infectious • Acute or chronic • Endogenous or exogenous (meaning coming from inside or outside the body). • Located at the front (anterior), middle (intermediate), or back (posterior). Each case of uveitis may be made up of a number different combinations of the above classifications and so there is no good single way of “pigeon-holing” uveitis cases . Although this may sound confus
