ORPHA:279925
Infectious panuveitis
Publications
39
44.5th percentile
Trials
1
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
208
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
2/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A rare ophthalmic disorder characterized by generalized inflammation of all parts of the uveal tract (iris, ciliary body, and choroid), simultaneously involving adjacent vitreous and retina, without any predominant site of inflammation, due to viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infections. Clinical symptoms include pain, photophobia, redness, blurring of vision, and floaters. Signs on examination are lid edema, ciliary injection, chemosis, keratic precipitates, cells in the anterior chamber, hypopyon, iris nodules and neovascularization, posterior synechiae, macular edema, vitreous and retinal hemorrhage, and retinal detachment, among others. Complications may result in visual loss.
How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0017211
- UMLS:C5230354
Research stages
Trial readiness signals
Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”
2/6 stages with a signal
An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
39 matched papers (31 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO
- Animal modelNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance
- Orphan designationNot checked
FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet
- Interventional trialPresent
1 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov
Biology
Genes and phenotypes
Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.
Do we know what causes it?
Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.
No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.
Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)
Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
Not enriched in this build.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
39
39 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.
39 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).
31 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 44.5th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 39 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
208
Distinct author names in 39 sampled papers — named people below.
Who's working on it?
People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.
- 01Albini TA2 papers · 2024
Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Nussenblatt RB2 papers · 2016
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Sen HN2 papers · 2016
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Yannuzzi NA2 papers · 2024
Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Abeykoon M1 paper · 2022
Eye Unit, Teaching Hospital Kurunegala Sri Lanka, Sanjeewa Kaluarachchi-Consultant Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon, Muditha Abeykoon-Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, Teaching hospital Kurunegala, Colombo Road Kurunegala, Sri Lanka.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Adewoyin T1 paper · 2019
Eye Treatment Centre, Whipps Cross University Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Agarwal A1 paper · 2016
Ocular Imaging Research and Reading Center (OIRRC), Omaha, NE, 68198-5540, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Aihara M1 paper · 2019
Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Akiyama M1 paper · 2024
Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Al Dhibi HA1 paper · 2019
Vitreoretinal and Uveitis Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Papers in Europe PMC
Clinical research
Is a treatment being tested?
1
interventional trials for this specific condition
1 interventional trial matched this specific condition name; none in our sample are currently recruiting. 22 trials are registered for panuveitis, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.
Data as of 27 July 2026
1 interventional trial — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 76.8th percentile).
high confidence · 76.8th percentile (trials denominator)
Recruiting interventional trials
From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
1 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.
No currently recruiting studies in the matched set. Open the same search on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Broader category: panuveitis
22
Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.
Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.
Recruiting under the broader category
- NCT05928754·NOT YET RECRUITING·Prospective CoHoRt Of Non-infectious Intermediate, pOsterior or panuveitiS
Conditions: Non-infectious Uveitis·Matched via name phrase
Observational and natural-history studies
1 observational study matches this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.
None of the matched observational studies is currently listed as recruiting.
Where to find support
We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.
Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.
How we counted this
Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.
"Infectious panuveitis"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Infectious panuveitis"
Interventional trials matched via: phrase (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).
Study-type breakdown: 1 interventional · 1 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"panuveitis"
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Confidence reasoning
- Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
Ingested 2026-07-27T11:47:47.535Z