Introduction: Purtscher's retinopathy causes sudden loss of vision of varying severity, secondary to head injury or chest compression. Its pathophysiology is unclear. Purtscher's-like retinopathy has more attenuated clinical and objective features and can be associated with many non-neoplastic pathologies.
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August 2020
Toxoplasmosis does not usually give any symptoms to a pregnant woman and in most cases she does not realize to be infected. On the contrary, in the newborn, congenital toxoplasmosis can be responsible of hydrocephalus, microcephaly, intracranial calcifications, strabismus, blindness, epilepsy, mental retardation, thrombocytopenia, anemia and chorioretinitis. All these pathologies have been reported in the primary infection, while they are unusual in either reinfections or recurrences.
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