IRITIS – CASES | Health Issues is a general health based blog concentrating on multiple health topics.

IRITIS – CASES

May 15th, 2009

In most cases, no apparent cause can be found for this inflammation, however, there are many diseases which are associated with it, or regarded as being the cause.

Tuberculosis and syphillis were once common causes of iritis. Other venereal diseases such as gonorrhoea, or NSU, non-specific urethritis, can be the cause.

Any acute infectious disease, bacterial or viral, may be the cause of an iritis. And this inflammation is also commonly associated with several of the rheumatic disorders, such as ankylosing spondylitis which involves the spine, or rheumatoid arthritis.

Some of the autoimmune diseases, of connective tissue, which are closely related to the rheumatic disorders, may also be the cause.

The back of the iris lies against the capsule of the lens, which focuses the light waves on the retina, the layer of light sensitive nerves lying on the back wall of the eye.

With the inflammation there is an outpouring of a sticky fluid, which can cause the iris to stick to the front of the lens.