Ophthalmologists can play pivotal role in sarcoidosis care

Irvine, CA-Sarcoidosis is a common cause of uveitis and one in which ophthalmologists can play a pivotal role by treating the disease and conferring with a patient's other physicians about its systemic manifestations, said Scott M. Whitcup, MD, assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles.