ACUTE INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS AND INTERMED IATE UVEITIS (TINU SYNDROME) - ECHOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION OF A CASE

Clinical features and natural course of acute interstitial and uveitis (TINU Syndrome) in a 9 years old boy are reported. The patient's ocul ar symptoms began seven month after the renal disease was diagnosed. I ntermediate uveitis was present bilaterally with vitreous infiltration . Optic disc drusen were documented by echography. An immunological di sorder causing the syndrome is most likely, as some laboratory data de monstrate. No systemic or infectious diseases were found in our case b ut an etiology to drugs considered likely.