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Toxoplasma Retinochoroiditis

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The Uveitis Atlas

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Ocular toxoplasmosis is a common cause of infectious posterior uveitis that can be either congenital or acquired. Typical disease presents with retinochoroidal infiltrates, vitreous humor cells and haze, and anterior chamber cells and flare. The hallmark of toxoplasma retinochoroiditis is the presence of whitish lesion adjacent to a pigmented or atrophic scar along with dense vitritis. Ancillary imaging tools such as fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography are very useful in the diagnosis and management of this condition. In the index chapter, several cases of toxoplasma retinochoroiditis along with their follow-up after treatment have been described.

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  1. Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Aniruddha Agarwal, Kanika Aggarwal, Reema Bansal & Vishali Gupta

  2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Pooja Bansal

  3. Uveitis and Ocular Infectious Diseases Service – Eye Clinic, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Alessandro Invernizzi

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Correspondence to Aniruddha Agarwal , Kanika Aggarwal , Reema Bansal , Vishali Gupta , Pooja Bansal or Alessandro Invernizzi .

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  1. Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Spencer Center for Vision Research, Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital Sorbonne University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Aniruddha Agarwal

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Agarwal, A., Aggarwal, K., Bansal, R., Gupta, V., Bansal, P., Invernizzi, A. (2020). Toxoplasma Retinochoroiditis. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Agarwal, A. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2410-5_44

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