Jornal de Oftalmologia Clínica e Experimental
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Intermediate Uveitis Revealing Asymptomatic Ulcerative Colitis

Taoufik Abdellaoui, Ghita Bouayad, Salem Joumany, Imane Tarib, Yassine Mouzari, Karim Reda and Abdelbarre Oubaaz

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that can be associated with extra-gastrointestinal manifestations. Intermediate uveitis during IBD is very rare, and has never been reported as revealing UC. We report a case of a 48-year-old patient who presented with deep unilateral decrease in visual acuity related to intermediate uveitis complicated by macular edema, in whom the etiological explorations concluded to an ulcerative colitis .