A Clinical Experience of Ocular Toxoplasmosis, Treated with Acetyl Spiramycin.

Shyn, Kyung Hwan; Kim, Kee Young; Park, Sang Choon

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1979;20(3):427-431.
Published online March 1, 1979.

A Clinical Experience of Ocular Toxoplasmosis, Treated with Acetyl Spiramycin.

Kyung Hwan Shyn, Kee Young Kim, Sang Choon Park

Department of Ophthalmology, Korea General Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Ocular Toxoplasmosis 의 치험례

신경환 , 김기영 , 박상춘 ( Kyung Hwan Shin , Kie Young Kim , Sang Choon Park )

Abstract

Ocular toxoplasmosis is the most frequent etiological factor of the known retinochoroiditis in the world. But there are very few cases of confirmed toxoplasmosis in Korea. In this paper we report a 5 year old girl who had suffered from left visual disturbance since Aug, 1978. The HA. titer for toxoplasmosis was 1:2048 and she had a typical focal exudative retinochoroiditis in the macular lesion and one small daughter lesion on superior temporal retinal arteriolar branch. She was treated with oral acetyl spiramycin(600 mg.) for 6 months. After all the active retinochoroidal lesion was changed into scar tissue and the vision has improved slightly from 0.02 to 0.2 during the followup period of one year. And also the HA. titer had decreased to 1:512. The fluorescein angiographic finding could be a helpful method to determine the healed lesion after anti toxoplasmic theraphy.