Hi Frank,

For other's to read: This is the treatment strategy for Parsplanitis advocated by the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation that Frank mentions.

Up to six steroid injections, separated by several weeks each, are the first step. If there is not improvement early on in this therapy, Dr. Fister adds NSAID to the recipe (injections + NSAID).

If the combination NSAID and regional injecitons don't get the job done, of if the injections cause complications such as high intraocular pressures, then surgery or imunomodulatory therapies are available alone or in combination and are very effective.

Not all physicians think alike with regard to the usefulness of NSAID trial. Each case should be considered individually. If you want to try NSAID along with injections, ask your physician about his or her experience with this. You probalby won't get much resistance to adding them. If you need to move on the IMT or surgery, NSAID is probably not in your future as a cure.

All of my best,

Liz

Edited by: Webmaster at: 10/31/09 10:08 pm