Iridocyclitis: Drug Therapy

Therapeutic target

Improvement of symptomatology.

Therapy recommendations

  • Anti-infectives (local/local; antibiotics, antivirals).
  • To prevent synechiae, mydriatics (pupil-dilating drugs; anticholinergics) and glucocorticoids

Further notes

  • In patients with noninfectious uveitis intermedia, uveitis posterior, and panuveitis who respond inadequately to glucocorticoid therapy, adalimumab (human monoclonal antibody to tumor necrosis factor-α; TNF blocker) can be used. Adalimumab has delayed disease progression in two randomized trials.