Observations of children with chorioretinitis in congenital toxoplasmosis
Jankowska, H.; Szczepańska-Putz, M.
Polski Tygodnik Lekarski 47(9-10): 232-233
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-3756 PMID: 1437826 Document Number: 398984
Hundred eleven children with congenital toxoplasmosis were followed up in the Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases in Childhood, Medical Academy in Warsaw, within 1979-1988. Ocular changes found in 91 children including chorioretinitis in 86 microphthalmia in 7, ophthalmic nerve atrophy in 15, vitreous body inflammation in 5, and cataract in 4. Only in 16 children the diagnosis was performed in the first year of life. In 15 children the recurrence of inflammatory process, most frequently in the time of puberty, was noted; twice in 5 of them. It was independent on the treatment which was previously administrated. Serological tests in ocular form of congenital toxoplasmosis do not indicate the dynamic changes in the inflammatory process. It is very important that small children are examined early and the treatment is started in the first year of life.