Explore the case of a 73-year-old woman with rheumatoid Arthritis who presents with severe eye pain, inflammation, and scleral thinning. What’s the diagnosis?
A 73-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis presented with a 1-month history of pain in her right eye. She had stopped immunosuppressive treatment a few years earlier. There was no recent history of trauma. Slit-lamp examination showed hyperemia, inflammation, and marked scleral thinning with exposure of the underlying choroid. What is the most likely diagnosis?
What is the most likely diagnosis?
Eye Pain, Necrotizing anterior scleritis, Ophthalmology, Rheumatoid arthritis, Scleritis
