Retinitis

Retinitis is an inflammation of the retina. The disease can develop in different ways, ranging from virtually no impairment of the patient to fully coming blindness by retinal degeneration. Often running a retinitis with inflammation of the choroid ( chorioretinitis ) associated.

The disease is often triggered by systemic infections such as toxoplasmosis, or by the tick-borne disease. Also, certain viruses can cause retinitis, such as cytomegalovirus retinitis, are rare metastatic bacterial infections.

AIDS patients often have a retinitis, which often leads to blindness in these cases.

Was also in certain hereditary diseases with retinal degenerative disease and is still referred to this symptom as retinitis pigmentosa, although the disease is not a primary inflammation and should be referred to as retinitis pigmentosa.

• Disease in ophthalmology
• Infectious disease