Uveitis – it’s just intraocular lymphadenopathy

The uvea contains familiar tissues and cell types (lymphocytes, smooth muscle, and blood vessels, for example), is inflamed by familiar antigens (infectious agents, neoplasia, auto-antigens) and reacts with the 5 cardinal signs of inflammation seen elsewhere (heat, pain, swelling, etc.).  And yet it can be a very confusing disease. This lecture aims to provide aids to diagnosis and therapy of uveitis in dogs and cats by likening it to inflammation elsewhere (because it is more similar than it is different) while highlighting differences (because these are helpful).