chorioretinitis

Chorioretinitis may also be more common than previously thought.

There have also been rare cases with evidence of chorioretinitis but without neurological signs.

If the retina is also involved, it is called chorioretinitis.

Eye (chorioretinitis), symptoms include eye pain and gradual vision loss in one or both eyes.

Other possible causes of chorioretinitis are syphilis, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, and onchocerciasis.

Posterior uveitis or chorioretinitis is the inflammation of the retina and choroid.

As a result, a neurologic examination is indicated for children in whom Toxoplasma chorioretinitis is diagnosed.

Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite that causes a necrotizing chorioretinitis.

Toxoplasma chorioretinitis is probably the most common cause of infections in the back of the eye (posterior segment) worldwide.

Chorioretinitis:

A unifocal area of acute-onset inflammation adjacent to an old chorioretinal scar is virtually pathognomonic for toxoplasmic chorioretinitis.

Congenital toxoplasmosis via transplacental transmission can also lead to sequelae such as chorioretinitis along with hydrocephalus and cerebral calcifications.

The other occurred in a 39-year-old woman with CMV mononucleosis followed by 'pinpoint chorioretinitis'; her presenting fundoscopic findings were poorly described.

Under ophthalmic examination, toxoplasmic chorioretinitis classically appears as a focal, white retinitis with overlying moderate inflammation of the vitreous humour.

Less common conditions that can be revealed using retinal images are arterial and vein occlusions, chorioretinitis, congenital anomalies, and tapetoretinal abitrophy.

The parasite can cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and neurologic diseases, and can affect the heart, liver, inner ears, and eyes (chorioretinitis).

Rarely it may have ocular complications such as hemeralopia, pigmentary chorioretinitis, optic atrophy or retinal/iris coloboma, having a serious effect on the person's vision.

The TORCH infections cause a syndrome characterized by microcephaly, sensorineural deafness, chorioretinitis, hepatosplenomegaly and thrombocytopenia.

Dirksen remained in the House of Representatives, but in 1947, he awakened to trouble in his right eye that was diagnosed as chorioretinitis, inflammation in the retina.

Approximately 90% of infants with symptomatic disease at birth who survive have late complications, including substantial hearing loss, mental retardation, chorioretinitis, optic atrophy, seizures, or learning disabilities (579).

Amongst the aquarelles there is one picture of a typical chorioretinitis of the African ocular onchocerciasis, which creates blotchy scars (Hissette 1937, Hissette 1938).

Ocular complications, though rare, are listed as optic atrophy, microphthalmia, pigmentary chorioretinitis, hemeralopia (decreased vision in bright light), myopia, strabismus, nystagmus and iris/retinal coloboma.

Although most children with in utero CMV infection do not have symptoms at birth, 10%--15% are at risk for later developmental abnormalities, sensorineural hearing loss, chorioretinitis, or neurologic defects.

Neuroimaging is warranted in AIDS patients presenting with these findings because intracranial toxoplasmic lesions have been reported in up to 29% of these patients who have toxoplasmic chorioretinitis.

If infection with 'T. gondii' occurs for the first time during pregnancy, the parasite can cross the placenta, possibly leading to hydrocephalus or microcephaly, intracranial calcification, and chorioretinitis, with the possibility of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) or intrauterine death.