Other rheumatic diseases with uveitis besides juvenile idiopathic arthritis

In childhood and adolescence, uveitis is part of the clinical spectrum of many inflammatory-rheumatic diseases. Besides juvenile idiopathic arthritis juvenile, ankylosing spondylitis, infection-associated arthritides, infantile sarcoidosis, systemic: vasculitides, inflammatory bowel diseases, hereditary autoinflammatory syndromes and the TINU syndrome have to be excluded. These inflammatory diseases can be differentiated clinically in connection with immunogenetic and molecular genetic investigations. Early diagnosis of uveitis as well as the underlying diseases is mandatory for an early treatment and therefore for a good prognosis.