Modern insights into ophthalmic manifestations of rheumatic diseases

Abstract

This literature review is devoted to the analysis of modern insights into ophthalmological manifestations (according to the data of foreign scientific literature in the PubMed system for 20172020) of the most common rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic scleroderma, systemic vasculitis), which are characterized by damage to all structures of the eye and its adnexa: eyelids, orbital tissues, eyeball tunics, vessels, optic nerve and vitreous. Ocular lesion may be an onset, one of the diagnostic signs, or a biomarker of underlying medical condition.