AIMS To investigate the efficacy of azithromycin in patients with ocular toxoplasmosis. METHODS 11 immunocompetent patients with ocular toxoplasmosis were treated with azithromycin (500 mg the first day, followed by 250 mg/day for 5 weeks). Ocular and systemic examinations were performed during active retinitis episodes and all patients were followed for at least 1 year. RESULTS The intraoc...

BACKGROUND: Due to the reduced immune response following chemotherapy, cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is most prevalent opportunistic intraocular infection in HIV-infected adults. It can also affect children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). CASE PRESENTATION: We describe an 11.5-year-old female who undergoing maintenance chemotherapy for B-lineage ALL. She had vision loss her right eye...

We performed histopathologic and immunofluorescence studies of autopsy eyes from a 73-year-old woman with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa from a family with reduced penetrance. Light microscopic examination showed extensive photoreceptor loss in most regions. In the temporal midperiphery of the retina, there were patches of remaining photoreceptors, some arranged in rosettes. Electron m...

Background : Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited heterogeneous group of retinal disorders represented by rod photoreceptors progressive dysfunction with subsequent cone degeneration and the pigment epithelium. The typical manifestations are loss visual field night blindness. Purpose purpose this study was to examine Amsler Grid on right left eyes, no scotomas metamorphopsia were found. Method ...

(1) HISTORICAL.-In the fully-developed state, choroideremia presents a characteristic and unmistakable picture of which Fig. 1 and Colour Plate 1(a and b) may be taken as examples. The almost total lack of choroidal vessels strongly suggests a developmental anomaly. In fact most of the early writers on, the subject, such as Mauthner (1872) and Koenig (1874), stressed the likeness to choroidal c...