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Uveitis in Long Island

April 06, 2010 @ 07:48 AM — by John Mauro

Uveitis is inflammation anywhere in lining of the eye, known as the uvea, or uveal tract. Symptoms of uveitis including eye pain and aching, eye redness, sensitivity to bright light, flashing lights, loss of peripheral vision, or blurred vision and floaters are typical. All of our ophthalmologists at North Shore Eye Care (Drs Sidney Martin, Jeff Martin, Larry Zweibel and John Mauro) are board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.  More recently Dr. John Mauro has joined the practice and is well recognized for his work in ocular immunology and inflammation, allergic disease and auto-immune disorders. In Long Island (Suffolk and Nassau Counties), we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville and many other towns.