Uveitis is inflammation of the eye’s uvea. Inflammation is the body’s response to injury, or trauma. To treat uveitis, doctors look for the cause of the trauma to the eye. Uveitis can be caused by many different kinds of trauma, including a virus, bacteria infections, or parasites.
Genes can play an important role in uveitis. Also, diseases that damage the body’s immune system, such as AIDS, can lower the body’s ability to protect itself from infections that can cause uveitis.
In many cases, perhaps as many as a third or half of all uveitis cases, the cause of the inflammation is not known.
Click the links in the left-hand menu to learn about some of the different common causes of uveitis.
