Neovascularización coroidea secundaria a toxoplasmosis ocular activa: Reporte de un caso

Jenny Kam Lin Ku Lozano; Charles Gino Conde Obregon; Eduardo Maron Ku Lu; Margarita Samudio

doi:10.52379/mcs.v9.592

Choroidal neovascularization by active ocular toxoplasmosis: a case report

Authors

Jenny Kam Lin Ku Lozano Centro Vision, Piura, Perú
Charles Gino Conde Obregon Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima, Perú
Eduardo Maron Ku Lu Centro Vision, Piura, Perú
Margarita Samudio Universidad del Pacífico, Facultad de Medicina, Asunción, Paraguay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52379/mcs.v9.592

Keywords:

Coroidal neovascularization, treatment, ocular toxoplamosis, antiVEGF

Abstract

A 33– year–old woman attended to the eye clinic with a 5-day history of decreased unilateral visual acuity with no previous medical history. Clinical-ophthalmological examination revealed an elevated macular lesion compatible with active ocular toxoplasmosis which was treated with both antibiotics and anti-VEGF therapy, with which the patient evolved favorably.

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