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Twenty patients with presumptive herpetic iridocyclitis without active corneal inflammation received either topical idoxuridine 0.5% or acyclovir 3% ointment. The uveitis of all ten patients treated with acyclovir resolved within one to eight weeks. Four of ten patients treated with idoxuridine worsened but subsequently responded to topical prednisolone 0.3%. The pathogenesis of herpetic iridocyclitis is discussed with a literature review.
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Wilhelmus, K.R., Falcon, M.G. & Jones, B.R. Herpetic iridocyclitis. Int Ophthalmol 4, 143–150 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00161904
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