Immune Recovery Uveitis Occurring after Chemotherapy and Ocular CMV Infection in Chronic Lymphatic Leukaemia

Introduction

Immune recovery uveitis (IRU) is a disease entity which can occur after successful treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis and is linked to spontaneous or pharmacologically induced recovery of immunity.

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