Bilateral panuveitis: a possible association with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease

Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease

“…6 The ocular involvement has been reported as a possible association with KFD include bilateral panuveitis developed 2 years after the onset of lymph adenopathy. 18 The manifestation of KFD as extensive small and large joint synovitis has been reported by Graham. 19 The range of symptoms and abnormalities is wide.…”

Uveíte anterior como manifestação da Doença de Kikuchi e Fujimoto

“…relataram um caso de panuveíte bilateral possivelmente associada à DKF (11) . No caso aqui apresentado, evidenciamos apenas no olho esquerdo: uma hiperemia peri-cerática, células ++/4+, flare +/4+, ausência de precipitados ceráticos, de hipópio ou sinéquias posteriores, caracterizando um quadro de irite leve ou branda, a qual adquiriu um maior significado quando associada aos sinais e sintomas sistêmicos e ainda por ter evoluído para a cura, ao mesmo tempo em que a DKF, sugerindo uma forte associação entre elas.…”

Kikuchi Fujimoto lymphadenitis: Case report and literature review

“…Several fatalities directly attributable to the systemic involvement by the disease have been reported [16][17][18][19][20], and the risk of progression to SLE is well known [13]. Furthermore, many studies have shown that a wide spectrum of immune diseases ranging from arthritis and adult Still's disease [14,21] to polymyositis [22], interstitial lung disease [23], scleroderma [24], vasculitis [8], uveitis [25], thyroiditis [26], or drug hypersensitivity [27,28] may be associated with Kikuchi Fujimoto disease at presentation or may complicate the ensuing course. Other investigators have also described the association with neurologic disorders [29,30], infection with HIV [31] and HTLV-1 [32], hemophagocytic syndrome [11,12], and breast cancer [33] or lymphoma [34].…”