[Analysis of the life quality of infectious and non-infectious patients with uveitis using the NEI-VFQ-25 questionnaire].

Purpose: To evaluate the life quality of patients with infectious and non-infectious uveitis evaluated at the uveitis service of the Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho-UFRJ, using the NEI-VFQ-25 questionnaire in order to clarify the importance of uveitis diagnosis and treatment as well as its consequences to visual and social functions of the patients.

Methods: Prospective study of 30 patients with uveitis, who were divided into two groups according to the etiology, infectious and non-infectious, with the NEI-VFQ-25 form that evaluates the life quality regarding general and visual health which was applied twice to each patient.

Results: The main cause of infectious uveitis was toxoplasmosis, and of the non-infectious was Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome.

[Leigh syndrome: case report].

The authors describe for the first time in the Country a case of a 10-year-old female child, assisted at the Ophthalmology Clinic of the Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho UFRJ, with Leigh's syndrome that is part of a metabolic disease group known as mitochondrial encephalomyopathies. It is an hereditary disease transmitted by a different mode of inheritance: mitochondrial, X-linked recessive and autosomal recessive. The beginning of clinical manifestations is varied and occurs usually in the first two years of life, with progressive and insidious evolution and exacerbation periods.