2016 Feb;20(1):85-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2015.10.005.

Author information

1
WVU School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia. Electronic address: lgioia@mix.wvu.edu.
2
WVU Eye Institute, Morgantown, West Virginia.
3
WVU Pediatrics and WVU Infectious Diseases, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Abstract

We report a case of toxoplasmosis with bilateral maculopathy in a 7-year-old boy diagnosed with ataxia telangiectasia (AT) at age 6. AT manifests as ataxia, apraxia, telangiectasia, and dysarthria. Common ophthalmologic findings in AT include fine conjunctival telangiectasia. Patients also suffer from recurrent sinopulmonary infections; however, serious opportunistic infection is rarely diagnosed. At 8 years of age he developed disseminated Toxoplasma gondii (toxoplasmosis) infection and meningoencephalitis. This ophthalmologic finding and the subsequent toxoplasmosis meningoencephalitis have not been previously reported in AT.

PMID:
 
26917084
 
DOI:
 
10.1016/j.jaapos.2015.10.005
[Indexed for MEDLINE]