Acta Medica Medianae
Vol. 40
No 3, 2001
UDK 61
YU ISSN 0365-4478

 



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Gordana ZLATANOVIĆ
Clinic For Eye Diseases of the Clinic Center, Niš

EYE INFECTION IN THE CONATAL PERIOD

Gordana ZLATANOVIĆ, Gordana STANKOVIĆ BABIĆ, Predrag JOVANOVIĆ, Sonja ŽIVKOVIĆ and Milena VUJANOVIĆ

Clinic For Eye Diseases of the Clinic Center, Niš

A special attention in the embryo damaging should be paid to mother's infections in the first three months of the intra-uterine development. Mother's infections can strike many organs of the embryo while a specially sensitive problem is the one with the sense of seeing. Most frequently these infections are caused by Toxoplasma gondii, Citomegalovirus, Herpes simplex virus, Rubella and Varicella Zoster virus.
The eye manifestations of the congenital toxoplasmosis are retinochoroidities, 80% of them localized in the macula region (in 50% of the cases in both the eyes), and microphtalamos in 40% to 70% of the cases as well as iridocyclities and cataracta.
The cytomegalovirus, in a congenital infection, causes chorioretinitis with multiple yellowish-whitish segments, vasculitis and hemorrhages, microphtalmia and strabismus.
The most frequent changes induced by the rubella infections are micro-phtalamos, congenital cataracta, retinopathy and uveities.

The herpes simplex virus as the cause of a congenital infection leads to chorioretinitis and keratoconjuctivities while the varicella-zoster virus infection gives rise to chorioretinitis and cataracta.

Key words: conatal infection, toxoplasmosis, cytomegalovirus, rubella, herpes simplex virus, varicella zoster virus