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Heerfordt Syndrome

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024

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Causes
Symptoms

Diagnostics
Treatment
Forecast

Heerfordt syndrome (syn: uveoparotitis, uveoparotid fever was described in 1409 by CF Heerfordt as a symptom complex, including parotid enlargement, uveal tract damage (iridocyclits, uveitis), subfebrile fever.

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Causes of the heerfordt syndrome

Causes of the disease are unknown. But they assume a viral origin or a tuberculous etiology.

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Symptoms of the heerfordt syndrome

A painless or painless bilateral increase in the parotid glands is defined, accompanied by an increase in body temperature to subfebrile values (uveoparotid fever), reversible paresis of the facial nerve, uveitis or iridocyclitis. Sometimes polyadenopathy is noted.

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Diagnostics of the heerfordt syndrome

When pathomorphological examination of the salivary or lacrimal glands, epithelioid granulomas with giant cells are detected. The epithelium of the salivary ducts proliferate into their lumen.

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Treatment of the heerfordt syndrome

Corticosteroid therapy, antipyretic and analgesic agents are used.

Sometimes the described symptomatology passes by itself. On the side of the eye, secondary glaucoma can develop.

Forecast

The prognosis for Heerfordt syndrome is favorable, after treatment recovery comes.

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