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<title type='html'>Combination of KIR and HLA gene variants augments the risk of developing birdshot chorioretinopathy in HLA-A*29-positive individuals.</title>
<summary type='html'>Birdshot chorioretinopathy (BCR), a chronic ocular inflammatory disease with characteristic choroidal lymphocytic infiltrates, has been strongly associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A29. Although HLA-A29 occurs frequently in all populations, BCR affects only a small percentage of HLA-A29-positive Caucasians, indicating additional susceptibility factors for BCR. Discovery of HLA class I-sp...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Levinson,  Du,  Luo,  Monnet,  Tabary,  Brezin,  Zhao,  Gjertson,  Holland,  Reed,  Cohen,  Rajalingam (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Genes Immun&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; :  &lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Characteristics of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease in a French cohort: ethnicity, systemic manifestations, and HLA genotype data.</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE: To assess in patients followed in a French referral center the clinical spectrum of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease and the HLA-DRB1*04 genotype. METHODS: Patients previously diagnosed as having VKH disease were re-evaluated in a cross-sectional study using the VKH Committee's revised criteria. High-resolution HLA-DRB1 genotyping was performed. RESULTS: Eleven white patients satisfied ...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;S Abad, D Monnet, S Caillat-Zucman, S Mrejen, P Blanche, M Chalumeau, L Mouthon, R Dhote, A P Brézin (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Ocul Immunol Inflamm&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 16: 1 3-8&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Chorioretinal lesions as the unique feature of complete chronic granulomatous disease in an 8-year-old girl.</title>
<summary type='html'>Martin Chalumeau, Dominique Monnet, Antoine P Brézin, Dominique Gendrel, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Bénédicte Gérard, Sylvie Chollet-Martin (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Eur J Pediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 166: 10 1069-1070&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia: &quot;congenital ameibomia&quot;</title>
<summary type='html'>Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is a congenital, generally X-linked dermatosis that associates facial dysmorphy, short stature, and severe blepharitis. The anomalies of the skin are epidermic abnormalities; reduction of the glands of the derm, particularly the sweat glands, explaining the hypohidrosis; onychodysplasia; trichodysplasia; and abnormal dentition. The ophthalmologic manifestations are ...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;J Allali, O Roche, D Monnet, A Brezin, G Renard, J-L Dufier (2007)  &lt;i&gt;J Fr Ophtalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 30: 5 525-528&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Longitudinal cohort study of patients with birdshot chorioretinopathy. IV. Visual field results at baseline.</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE: To describe visual field parameters at baseline examination of 80 participants in a longitudinal cohort study of birdshot chorioretinopathy and to identify relationships between these parameters and visual acuity, symptoms, clinical findings, and results of laboratory tests. DESIGN: Single-center cross-sectional study. METHODS: Standardized Fastpac, full-threshold Humphrey 30-2 (Carl Zeis...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Lynn K Gordon, Dominique Monnet, Gary N Holland, Antoine P Brézin, Fei Yu, Ralph D Levinson (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Am J Ophthalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 144: 6 829-837&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Longitudinal cohort study of patients with birdshot chorioretinopathy. III. Macular imaging at baseline.</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE: To describe optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fluorescein angiography (FA) parameters at baseline examination of 80 subjects (160 eyes) in a longitudinal cohort study of birdshot chorioretinopathy and to compare these parameters with measures of visual function and clinical findings. DESIGN: Single-center cross-sectional study. METHODS: Comparisons were made between OCT and FA parame...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Dominique Monnet, Ralph D Levinson, Gary N Holland, Lamine Haddad, Fei Yu, Antoine P Brézin (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Am J Ophthalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 144: 6 818-828&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Ocular complications after laser epilation of eyebrows.</title>
<summary type='html'>Morgane Le Jeune, Marianne Autié, Dominique Monnet, Antoine P Brézin (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Eur J Dermatol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 17: 6 553-554&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Severe uveitis in an HLA-B27-positive patient with ankylosing spondylitis.</title>
<summary type='html'>BACKGROUND: A 36-year-old male presented with bilateral, anterior, chronic uveitis, with cystoid macular edema. Decimal visual acuity was 0.25 in the right eye and 0.20 in the left eye. Ankylosing spondylitis had been diagnosed 13 years previously, with peripheral and axial involvement. He had no history of extra-articular manifestations of ankylosing spondylitis before this uveitis attack. Treatm...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Dominique Monnet, Laurence Moachon, Maxime Dougados, Antoine P Brézin (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Nat Clin Pract Rheumatol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 2: 7 393-397&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Birdshot chorioretinopathy.</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Birdshot chorioretinopathy is the disease with the strongest link to a human leukocyte antigen class I allele. Current research aims at understanding its immunogenetic mechanisms, focusing on the A29 allele, its subtypes, and on other loci of the human leukocyte antigen region. Research criteria can be applied to define birdshot chorioretinopathy. Its heterogeneous presentations...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Dominique Monnet, Antoine P Brézin (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Curr Opin Ophthalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 17: 6 545-550&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Longitudinal cohort study of patients with birdshot chorioretinopathy II: color vision at baseline.</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE: To describe color vision at the baseline examination of 80 participants in a longitudinal cohort study of birdshot chorioretinopathy and to identify relationships between color vision and visual acuity, symptoms, and ophthalmic signs. DESIGN: Single center cross-sectional study. METHODS: Color vision was evaluated with the desaturated Lanthony 15-Hue test. Relationships were sought betwee...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Gary N Holland, Kayur H Shah, Dominique Monnet, Antoine P Brezin, Fei Yu, Steven Nusinowitz, Ralph D Levinson (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Am J Ophthalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 142: 6 1013-1018&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>The genetics of spondyloarthropathies.</title>
<summary type='html'>The spondyloarthropathies constitute a group of inflammatory joint diseases linked by shared characteristics that include a strong common genetic background. Genetic factors include major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, among which HLA-B27 contributes 30% of the overall genetic susceptibility to spondyloarthropathies, and non-MHC genes, none of which have been identified to date. Genome sc...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Maxime Breban, Corinne Miceli-Richard, Elena Zinovieva, Dominique Monnet, Roula Said-Nahal (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Joint Bone Spine&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 73: 4 355-362&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Longitudinal cohort study of patients with birdshot chorioretinopathy. I. Baseline clinical characteristics.</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE: To describe baseline clinical characteristics of a cohort of 80 patients with birdshot chorioretinopathy in anticipation of a longitudinal study, and to identify relationships between visual acuity, symptoms, and ophthalmic findings. DESIGN: Single-center cross-sectional study. METHODS: A standardized examination was performed in the same order on a single day for each patient. A grading ...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Dominique Monnet, Antoine P Brézin, Gary N Holland, Fei Yu, Alfred Mahr, Lynn K Gordon, Ralph D Levinson (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Am J Ophthalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 141: 1 135-142&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Uveitis associated with thyroïditis in HTLV-1 carriers</title>
<summary type='html'>INTRODUCTION: The oncovirus HTLV-1 is aetiologically associated with uveitis and autoimmune thyroiditis in endemic areas. The association of uveitis with autoimmune thyroiditis in HTLV-1 carriers is less common moreover in non-endemic area. EXEGESE: We report two original cases of simultaneous uveitis and autoimmune thyroiditis in HTLV-1 carriers, without other disease due to HTLV-1. The visual ou...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;M Streho, E Delair, S Abad, R Sablé-Fourtassou, P Blanche, D Monnet, M-C Brion, A P Brezin, R Dhote (2005)  &lt;i&gt;Rev Med Interne&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 26: 11 894-896&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Different HLA class IA region complotypes for HLA-A29.2 and -A29.1 antigens, identical in birdshot retinochoroidopathy patients or healthy individuals.</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE: Birdshot retinochoroidopathy (BSCR) is a rare posterior uveitis characterized by distinctive, multiple, hypopigmented choroidal and retinal lesions. At least 96% of patients, if not all, share the major histocompatibility antigen HLA-A29. Although it was hypothesized earlier that more frequently the A*2902 subtype was closely associated with BSCR, new patients were found to share the A*29...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Béatrice Donvito, Dominique Monnet, Thierry Tabary, Emmanuelle Delair, Mélanie Vittier, Brigitte Réveil, Radjagourou Sivaradjam, Catherine Edelson, Frédérique Philbert, Antoine P Brézin, Jacques H M Cohen (2005)  &lt;i&gt;Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 46: 9 3227-3232&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Defective costimulatory function is a striking feature of antigen-presenting cells in an HLA-B27-transgenic rat model of spondylarthropathy.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: A disease resembling the human spondylarthropathies develops in HLA-B27-transgenic rats. This disease in rats is mediated by CD4+ T cells, but antigen-presenting cells (APCs) may also play a role. Dendritic cells (DCs) have been reported to be defective in allogeneic mixed lymphocyte culture in this model. Here, we further investigated the functional defect of APCs. METHODS: DCs and B c...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Cécile Hacquard-Bouder, Géraldine Falgarone, Antoine Bosquet, Faïza Smaoui, Dominique Monnet, Marc Ittah, Maxime Breban (2004)  &lt;i&gt;Arthritis Rheum&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 50: 5 1624-1635&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Ophthalmic findings and frequency of extraocular manifestations in patients with HLA-B27 uveitis: a study of 175 cases.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: To analyze ocular and extraocular manifestations in patients with HLA-B27-associated uveitis. DESIGN: Large, observational case series. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred seventy-five consecutive patients with HLA-B27-associated uveitis seen in a single center between January 1996 and March 2001. METHODS: Features of uveitis were noted and patients were referred systematically to rheumatologists...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Dominique Monnet, Maxime Breban, Christophe Hudry, Maxime Dougados, Antoine P Brézin (2004)  &lt;i&gt;Ophthalmology&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 111: 4 802-809&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Pseudouveitis: a clue to the diagnosis of primary central nervous system lymphoma in immunocompetent patients.</title>
<summary type='html'>Primary oculocerebral non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) of the immunocompetent patient is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, but early diagnosis and follow-up may improve prognosis. The eye, anatomically and embryologically part of the central nervous system (CNS), can be the primary site of the lymphomatous process. In patients with symptoms of atypical uveitis, vitrectomy can be of gr...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sophie Park, Sébastien Abad, Micheline Tulliez, Dominique Monnet, Annabelle Merlat, Emmanuel Gyan, Didier Bouscary, François Dreyfus, David Grimaldi, Robin Dhote, Florence Rollot, Charikleia Kelaïdi, Eve-Marie Nazal, Antoine P Brézin, Philippe Blanche (2004)  &lt;i&gt;Medicine (Baltimore)&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 83: 4 223-232&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Increased prevalence of ocular glaucomatous abnormalities in systemic sclerosis.</title>
<summary type='html'>BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular diseases, vasospasm, and dysimmunity have been implicated in normal tension glaucoma (NTG). OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of ocular abnormalities suggestive of glaucoma damage in systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS: 61 patients with SSc (mean (SD) age 56.2 (12) years, mean (SD) disease duration 9.9 (9) years; 41 with limited cutaneous disease) and 37 control sub...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Y Allanore, C Parc, D Monnet, A P Brézin, A Kahan (2004)  &lt;i&gt;Ann Rheum Dis&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 63: 10 1276-1278&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Association of peripheral multifocal choroiditis with sarcoidosis: a study of thirty-seven patients.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinical spectrum of peripheral multifocal choroiditis (PMC) and its association with sarcoidosis. METHODS: Thirty-seven patients examined between November 1997 and November 2001 who met all diagnostic criteria for PMC were included in this retrospective study. Patients were assessed for the following signs of sarcoidosis: typical changes on chest radiography or computed t...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;S Abad, V Meyssonier, J Allali, H Gouya, A L Giraudet, D Monnet, C Parc, F Tenenbaum, J L Alberini, S Grabar, F Pesce, F Rollot, D Sicard, R Dhote, P Blanche, A P Brézin (2004)  &lt;i&gt;Arthritis Rheum&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 51: 6 974-982&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Loss of visual acuity due to choroidal ischemia in Fabry's disease</title>
<summary type='html'>We report a case of a 21-year-old man with Fabry's disease who presented with a sudden decrease in visual acuity to 20/200 in the left eye. Pale areas with a lobular choroidal distribution were seen on fundus examination. No retinal vascular causes were found on further evaluation. With anticoagulation treatment, the patient's subsequent course was good, with visual recovery to 20/25 and normaliza...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;J-M Guenoun, C Parc, D Monnet, A-P Brezin (2003)  &lt;i&gt;J Fr Ophtalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 26: 8 842-844&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Therapeutic strategy in delayed postoperative endophtalmitis: a report on 15 cases</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE: To report the treatment strategies and visual acuity outcomes of chronic postoperative endophthalmitis. MATERIAL: and methods: The authors reviewed the records of 15 patients presenting 3 or more weeks after cataract surgery with intraocular inflammation and treated at Bicêtre Hospital from 1992 to 1998. Group I included 6 consecutive patients treated with vitrectomy and intravitreal ant...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;D Monnet, M Labetoulle, M Lautier-Frau, H Offret, E Frau (2002)  &lt;i&gt;J Fr Ophtalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 25: 6 599-603&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Phototherapeutic keratectomy for the treatment of Cogan's microcystic dystrophy</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSE: This retrospective study was designed to investigate the therapeutic potential of phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) for the treatment of map-dot-fingerprint corneal dystrophy (MDFCD). PATIENTS AND METHODS: PTK was performed with the Excimed UV 200 and with the Nidek EC5000 on 38 patients (55 eyes). Mean patient age was 51 years (range, 28-86 years). The mean follow-up period was 19 month...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;J L Bourges, P Dighiero, E Assaraf, D Monnet, G Renard (2002)  &lt;i&gt;J Fr Ophtalmol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 25: 6 594-598&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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