108 ophta •
2|2010
Originalia
2010: What’s new in uveitis?
Carl P.
Herbort, Lausanne
Before becoming more specific, an anecdote will illustrate what has changed
for me, an uveitis specialist, in the last
fifteen years.
When I attended gala dinners of...
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108 ophta •
2|2010
Originalia
2010: What’s new in uveitis?
Carl P.
Herbort, Lausanne
Before becoming more specific, an anecdote will illustrate what has changed
for me, an uveitis specialist, in the last
fifteen years.
When I attended gala dinners of international congresses in the
nineteen nineties and my neighbour, a
cataract specialist, would inquire about
my special interest, the answer invariably
was “poor you, giving corticosteroids
to patients that nonetheless get blind”.
Nowadays I am free of any anguish to
participate in such gala dinners, as there
will be an extensive conversation on the
fabulous progress in uveitis before we
switch to non professional topics.
The pace of progress in technical fields
such as cataract and vitreo-retinal surgery in the seventies to nineties of the last
century has now also reached the field of
uveitis – but in an exponential mode.
The
job we are doing in uveitis in 2010 has little in common with what we practiced in
the nineties of the las
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