PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | ocular toxoplasmosis |
| Phenotype | C0042164|uveitis |
| Sentences | 4 |
| PubMedID- 23047172 | Purpose of review: to provide an overview of ocular toxoplasmosis, the leading cause of infectious posterior uveitis, focusing on recent trends of disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapy and prevention. |
| PubMedID- 20554617 | Purpose: laboratory diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis, the major cause of posterior uveitis worldwide, can be improved. |
| PubMedID- 22454249 | Perhaps surprisingly, such treatment recommendations or guidelines do not yet exist for ocular toxoplasmosis—the most common cause of infectious uveitis worldwide [30, 31], and while guidelines do exist regarding the use of immunosuppressive drugs in patients with noninfectious uveitis, they are largely unknown by all but those already quite experienced in the use of such agents. |
| PubMedID- 21120306 | Thirty uveitis patients were diagnosed with ocular toxoplasmosis based on a fundoscopy and laboratory tests (tg uveitis), and 50 uveitis patients were diagnosed with non-infectious, immune-mediated uveitis (non-tg uveitis). |
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