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Rev Cub de Tec de la Sal 2013; 4 (4)

Toxoplasmosis ocular en pacientes del ASIC “El Pinar”, Maracaibo. Venezuela

Torres CRJ, Sarria PCA, Llanes DS

Language: Spanish
References: 24
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ABSTRACT

The toxoplasmosis is an illness of universal distribution, some authors have called it the parasitoses of the XX century, at least 500 million people are infected in the entire world. The investigators carried out an observational, descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study to characterize the patients with ocular toxoplasmosis that attended the consultation of ophthalmology of the ASIC “El Pinar” of the municipality Maracaibo Zulia in the understood period of August from the 2007 to August of the 2008. The sample was constituted the 33 patients whose visual defect was due to the ophthalmologic diagnosis of Ocular Toxoplasmosis. The results expressed in 2 absolute frequencies and percentages, they were exposed in charts and graphics. The affected age group turned out to be that of 15-29 years (39.4%), with superiority of the feminine sex (54.5%). the patients not Prevailed with alimentary habits appropriate (57.6%) coexistence with domestic animals (69,7%) The blurred vision and the retinochoroiditis were the symptom and the most frequent sign, 93.9% and 78.8% respectively. The inactive lesions (78.8%), only (84.8%) and with localization macular (75.7%) they were the predominant ones. In all the patients there was some grade of visual affectation, having bad visual sharpness 75.7% of them, we intend to spread the results of the study, to sensitize the medical personnel - sanitarium of the importance of the control of this parasitoses as well as to carry out strategies of educational intervention on the transmission and prevention of the same one, guided to improve the quality of the population's life.


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