This systematic review and meta-analysis examined 30,471 adult patients with uveitis managed at tertiary ophthalmology centers across Europe. The goal was to understand how often different types of the condition occur and what causes them.
The researchers found that anterior uveitis made up 52.1% of cases, while posterior uveitis accounted for 18.9%. Panuveitis and intermediate uveitis were less common, representing 14.4% and 8.7% of cases respectively.
Regarding causes, non-infectious uveitis was the most frequent type at 44.9%, with idiopathic cases at 34.3%. Infectious uveitis accounted for 23.0% of the total. The study did not report safety concerns or adverse events because it analyzed existing patient records rather than a clinical trial.
The main limitation is that treatment patterns and complication rates were reported inconsistently across the different centers. Because this is a review of observational data, it provides a reference framework for understanding regional variation but does not prove that one cause leads to another.