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Basic concepts in immunology: effector cells and the innate immune response. Highlights. Definitions. Components of the immune system. Leukocytes. Overview of the innate immune system. Immunity versus inflammation. Triggers of innate immunity. Bacteria-derived molecules that trigger innate immunity. Other triggers or modulators of innate immunity. Innate mechanisms for the recruitment and activation of neutrophils. Innate mechanisms for the recruitment and activation of macrophages. Phagocyte-killing mechanism. Reactive nitrogen products. Mediator systems that amplify immune responses. Plasma-derived enzyme systems. Lipid mediators. Cytokines. Neutrophil-derived granule products. Immunization and adaptative immunity: the immune response arc and immune effectors. Highlights. Definitions. Phases of the immune response arc. Afferent phase. Processing phase. Effector phase. Immune response arc and primary or secondary immune response. Differences between primary and secondary responses. Homing. Effector responses of adaptative immunity. Antibody-mediated immune effector responses. Lymphocyte-mediated effector responses. Combined antibody and cellular effector mechanisms. Ocular immune responses. Highlights. Regional immunity and immunologic microenvironments. Immune responses of the conjunctiva. Features of the immunologic microenvironment. Immunoregulatory systems. Immune responses of the cornea. Features of the immunologic microenvironment. Immunoregulatory systems. Immune responses of the anterior chamber, anterior uvea, and vitreous. Feature of the immunologic microenvironment. Immunoregulatory systems. Immune responses of the retina, retinal pigment epithelium, choriocapillaris, and choroid. Features of the immunologic microenvironment. Immunoregulatory systems. Special topics in ocular immunology. Highlights. Animal models of human uveitis. Experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis. Endotoxin-induced uveitis. Equine recurrent uveitis. Autoimmune regulator-deficient mice. Interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein-specific T-Cell receptor transgenic mice. HLA associations and disease. Normal function of HLA molecules. Allelic variation. Disease associations. Diagnostic considerations in uveitis. Highlights. Overview. Epidemiology. Classification of uveitis. Anatomical classification. Classification by clinical features. Symptoms of uveitis. Signs of uveitis. Anterior segment. Intermediate segment. Posterior segment. Review of the patient’s health and other associated factors. Differential diagnosis of uveitis. Ancillary testing. Ophthalmic imaging and functional tests. Ocular fluid and tissue sampling. Cytology and pathology. Therapy for uveitis. Highlights. Medical management of uveitis. Corticosteroids. Systemic immunomodulatory therapy. Nonbiologic immunomodulatory therapy. Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors. Other biologic agents. Other therapeutic agents. Surgical management of uveitis. Scleritis. Highlights. Introduction. Classification of scleritis. Pathophysiology. Epidemiology. Clinical presentation. Diffuse anterior scleritis. Nodular anterior scleritis. Necrotizing scleritis. Posterior scleritis. Infectious scleritis. Diagnosis. Treatment. Systemic treatment. Surgical treatment. Prognosis. Noninfectious anterior and intermediate uveitis. Highlights. Anterior uveitis. Acute nongranulomatous anterior uveitis. Chronic anterior uveitis. Intermediate uveitis. Pars planitis. Multiple sclerosis. Posterior uveitis and panuveitis. Highlights. Posterior uveitis. Collagen vascular diseases. Susac syndrome. Inflammatory chorioretinopathies of unknown etiology. Panuveitis. Sarcoidosis. Sympathetic ophthalmia. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome. Behçet disease. Infectious uveitis: bacterial causes. Highlights. Syphilis. Congenital syphilis. Acquired syphilis. Ocular involvement. Diagnosis. Treatment. Lyme disease. Clinical features. Ocular involvement. Diagnosis. Treatment. Leptospirosis. Ocular involvement. Diagnosis. Treatment. Ocular nocardiosis. Ocular involvement. Diagnosis. Treatment. Tuberculosis. Ocular involvement. Diagnosis Treatment. Ocular bartonellosis. Ocular involvement. Diagnosis Treatment. Whipple disease. Ocular involvement. Diagnosis. Treatment. Infectious uveitis: nonbacterial causes. Highlights. Viral uveitis. Herpesviridae family. Rubella. Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. Mumps. Measles (rubeola). West nile virus. Rift valley fever. Human T-Lymphotropic virus type 1. Dengue fever. Chikungunya fever. Zika virus. Ebola virus. Other viral diseases. Fungal uveitis. Ocular histoplasmosis syndrome. Protozoal uveitis. Toxoplasmosis. Toxocariasis. Cysticercosis. Diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis. Onchocerciasis (river blindness). Endophthalmitis. Highlights. Chronic postoperative endophthalmitis. Clinical findings. Diagnosis. Treatment. Endogenous endophthalmitis. Endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis, Endogenous fungal endophthalmitis. Masquerade syndromes. Highlights. Neoplastic Masquerade syndromes. Highlights. Neoplastic Masquerade syndromes. Primary vitreoretinal lymphoma. Neoplastic Masquerade syndromes secondary to systemic lymphoma. Neoplastic Masquerade syndromes secondary to leukemia. Neoplastic Masquerade syndromes secondary to uveal lymphoid proliferations. Nonlymphoid malignancies. Metastatic tumors. Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation. Nonneoplastic Masquerade syndromes. Retinitis pigmentosa. Ocular Ischemic syndrome. Chronic peripheral rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Intraocular foreign bodies. Pigment Dispersion syndrome. Other syndromes. Complications of uveitis. Highlights. Calcific band keratopathy. Cataracts. Management. Complications. Glaucoma. Uveitic ocular hypertension. Uveitic glaucoma. Corticosteroid-induced ocular hypertension and glaucoma. Management. Hypotony. Uveitic macular edema. Treatment. Epiretinal membrane and macular hole. Vitreous opacification and vitritis. Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Retinal and choroidal neovascularization. Vision rehabilitation. Ocular involvement in AIDS. Highlights. Ophthalmic manifestations. Cytomegalovirus retinitis. Necrotizing herpetic retinitis. Toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis. Ocular syphilis. Multifocal choroiditis and systemic dissemination. Pneumocystis jirovecii choroiditis. Cryptococcus neoformans choroiditis. External eye manifestations. Ocular adnexal kaposi sarcoma. Molluscum contagiosum. Herpes zoster. Other infections.