Abstract: Inflammatory eye diseases are a group of refractory blinding ocular disorders induced by non-infective and non-neoplastic factors. Eye is also an organ often involved in many rheumatic diseases such as spondyloarthritis, Behcet’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, primary Sjogren's syndrome, relapsing chondritis, ANCA-related vasculitis and all of parts of eye ball can be involved. There are many similarties between inflammatory ocular diseases and ocular diseases related to rheumatic diseases. Rheumatic diseases-related ocular disease when occured as initial or major symptom is often misleading. Searching actively for etiology of recurrent inflammatory ocular disease should be emphasized thought out all of the body, including rheumatic as well as neoplastic diseases. Based on the common points of inflammatory eye diseases and rheumatic ophthalmopathy, the hope of better outcome would like to be relyed on improving the understanding of rheumatic ophthalmopathy, and strengthen the multidisciplinary cooperation on diagnosis and treatment. （Ophthalmol CHN, 2020, 29: 90-92）

Key words: inflammatory ocular disease, rheumatic disease