Table 1.

Patients with unilateral acute anterior uveitis included in the study

	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4	Patient 5
Age (years)	28	57	41	25	77
Sex	Male	Male	Female	Male	Female
Ethnicity	Caucasian	Caucasian	Caucasian	Caucasian	Caucasian
HLA-B27 status	Unknown	HLA-B27 negative	HLA-B27 positive and palmoplantar psoriasis	Unknown	HLA-B27 positive
Previous episodes of AAU	No	No	No	Yes	No
Duration of symptoms prior to tear fluid sampling (days)	1	10	5	1	7
AC flare (laser flare photometry)	47/4	3/54	129/3	11/3	*
AC flare (Sun criteria)	§	0/+ 2	+ 2/0	+ 1/0	+ 4/0
AC cells (Sun criteria)	§	0/+ 1	+ 1/0	± /0	+ 4/0
Corneal precipitates	§	Non-granular	Non-granular	None	Non-granular
AC fibrin	No	No	No	No	Yes
AC hypopyon	No	No	No	No	No
Posterior synechiae	No	No	No	No	Yes
Cells in anterior vitreous	No	No	No	No	#
Decimal visual acuity	1.0/1.0	1.0/1.0−−	1.2++/1.5−−	1.2++/1.2++	CF/1.0−−
Intraocular pressure (mmHg)	14/17	13/7	10/14	7/10	20/10
Schirmer test type 1 (0–40; mm)	40/40	33/40	17/7	7/7	30/10

Bilateral measurements are presented as right eye/left eye

AAU acute anterior uveitis, AC anterior chamber, CF counting fingers

*Measurement not obtained

§The standardization of uveitis nomenclature criteria not reported

# Posterior segment not visible