Case study: toxoplasmosis vasculitis led to recurrent angiitis

Toxoplasmic retinal vasculitis should be considered as a cause of frosted branch angiitis, a case study suggests.

Jaeryun Oh and colleagues at Korea University described a 6-year-old boy with perivascular, creamy, patchy retinal sheathing in both eyes; he had no focal necrotizing retinochoroiditis or scarring. The patient was treated with antitoxoplasmosis medication and a systemic steroid.

Several years after treatment of the toxoplasmosis, the patient presented with frosted branch angiitis that occurred twice without any retinal scarring and with no serological evidence of toxoplasmosis. With systemic steroids, the angiitis improved without further complications.

The case study is published in the February issue of Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica.