Common in all patients with weakened immune systems (due to chemotherapy, immuno-suppression after organ transplantation, AIDS). It occurs in about 40% of patients with AIDS, it is mostly mutual. In […]
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TOXOPLASMOSIS
It is the inflammation of the retina caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. Types: It can be congenital or acquired. Congenital toxoplasmosis is characterized by three Ks: calcifications in the […]
Read more »SYMPATHETIC OPHTHALMIA
It is an inflammatory disease of one eye (“sympathized eye”) caused by sensitization of the eye to antigens released from the other eye (“sympathetic eye”) after perforate injury, operation or […]
Read more »PINGUECULA
It is a hyaline degeneration of conjunctiva binder by the medial part of the limbus of the cornea. It is yellowish in color, round in shape, measuring about 2 […]
Read more »POSTERIOR UVEITIS (CHORIOIDITIS, CHORIORETINITIS) AND PANUVEITIS
The rear part of the uvea, chorioidea, is strongly related to the retina; so, inflammatory changes within one structure almost always pass on to the other. Therefore, in practice are […]
Read more »IRIDOCYCLITIS CIRCUMSCRIPTA
The inflammatory process is not diffuse but it is placed on some parts of the iris. The creation of giant cells and mononuclears is characteristic. Types: Iridocyclitis tuberculosa In early […]
Read more »BLEPHAROSPASM
Blepharospasm is a type of a focal dystonia that is characterized by sudden and uncontrollable contraction of the eyelids, so that the patient has a problem with spontaneous eye opening. […]
Read more »IRIDOCYCLITIS (ANTERIOR UVEITIS)
It is the inflammation of the iris and the ciliary body. Causes: Endogenous infection – infectious agents from the primarily affected focus in the organism invade the iris, choroids and […]
Read more »BLEPHAROPTOSIS (the lowered eyelid)
Blepharoptosis or ptosis (eyelid ptosis) is not uncommon. We use this term when we say that the eyelid covers the cornea more than the normal one, i.e. when the opening […]
Read more »UVEITIS
Uveitis is an inflammation of the eye that affects one or more than three parts from which the middle eye membrane – uvea – consists. We can perceive the eye […]
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