Iridocyclitis: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Eyes and ocular appendages (H00-H59).

  • Acute glaucoma attack (glaucoma).
  • Heterochromocyclitis – chronic inflammation of the ciliary body associated with different coloration of the iris.
  • Idiopathic (without apparent cause) iridocyclitis.
  • Keratitis (inflammation of the cornea)
  • Conjunctivitis (conjunctivitis)
  • Sympathetic ophthalmia – inflammation of the middle eye skin that occurs after injury/surgery and is seen in the healthy eye.

Blood, blood-forming organs – immune system (D50-D90).

  • Sarcoidosis (Boeck’s disease) – inflammatory systemic disease affecting mainly the skin, lungs and lymph nodes.

Skin and subcutaneous (L00-L99).

  • Psoriasis (psoriasis)

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Lyme disease – infectious disease caused by Borrelia and transmitted by ticks.
  • Brucellosis – infectious disease caused by different types of the genus Brucella.
  • Histoplasmosis – infectious disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum.
  • Leprosy – chronic tropical infectious disease.
  • Listeriosis – infectious disease caused by listeria.
  • Weil’s disease (Leptospirosis icterohaemorrhagica) – infectious disease caused by leptospires.
  • Syphilis (Lues)
  • Toxoplasmosis – infectious disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii.
  • Tuberculosis
  • Viral infection
  • Yersiniosis – infectious disease caused by Yersinia.

Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).

Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).

  • Bekhterev’s disease (ankylosing spondylitis) – chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease exclusively affecting the spine and its border joints.
  • Behçet’s disease (synonym: Adamantiades-Behçet’s disease; Behçet’s disease; Behçet’s aphthae) – multisystem disease from the rheumatic form circle, which is associated with recurrent, chronic vasculitis (vascular inflammation) of the small and large arteries and mucosal inflammation; The triad (the occurrence of three symptoms) of aphthae (painful, erosive mucosal lesions) in the mouth and aphthous genital ulcers (ulcers in the genital region), as well as uveitis (inflammation of the middle eye skin, which consists of the choroid (choroid), the ray body (corpus ciliare) and the iris) is stated as typical for the disease; a defect in cellular immunity is suspected
  • Reactive arthritis (synonym: postinfectious arthritis / joint inflammation) – secondary disease after gastrointestinal (gastrointestinal tract concerning), urogenital (urinary and genital organs concerning) or pulmonary (lungs concerning) infections; denotes an arthritis, where pathogens in the joint (usually) can not be found (sterile synovialitis).
  • Reiter’s disease (synonyms: Reiter’s syndrome; Reiter’s disease; arthritis dysenterica; polyarthritis enterica; postenteritic arthritis; posturethritic arthritis; undifferentiated oligoarthritis; urethro-oculo-synovial syndrome; Fiessinger-Leroy syndrome; English Sexually acquired reactive arthritis (SARA)) – special form of a “reactive arthritis” (see above. ); secondary disease after gastrointestinal or urogenital infections, characterized by the symptoms of Reiter’s triad; seronegative spondyloarthropathy, which is triggered especially in HLA-B27 positive persons by an intestinal or urinary tract disease with bacteria (mostly chlamydia); Can manifest as arthritis (joint inflammation), conjunctivitis (conjunctivitis), urethritis (urethritis) and partly with typical skin changes.
  • Rheumatoid arthritis

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)

  • Malignancies – malignant neoplasms, unspecified.

Injuries, poisonings, and other sequelae of external causes (S00-T98).

  • Traumatic – due to perforating injuries of the eye.