The smoking habits of 103 patients with a diagnosis of episcleritis or scleritis were evaluated. These patients were treated by one ruling protocol at the Leiden University Medical Center between 1997 ...

The hallmark symptom of scleritis is pain; examination of the eye typically reveals ocular redness due to engorged scleral vessels Classification of scleritis into clinical subtypes is helpful to ...

A 64-year-old woman presents with a two-week history of a sore, red right eye. She describes it as a foreign-body sensation. There is no mucous discharge. On direct questioning, the vision has not ...

We read with interest the recent paper by Boonman et al, 1 which reported a delay in response to treatment of scleritis in smokers compared with that in non-smokers. The authors postulated ...