Tratamento da retinocoroidite toxoplasmótica com o cloridrato de clindamicina Treatment of Toxoplasma gondii retinochoroiditis with clindamycin hydrochloride

• Main Authors: Vicente Amato Neto, Carlo R. de Souza-dias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1984
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/8a29c8db7bed4fe3a005c0d53c850a6a

Com o cloridrato de clindamicina, foram tratados 18 pacientes com retinocoroidite toxoplasmótica. Houve adoção da conduta escolhida em uma ou duas crises de cada doente e ficou patente a capacidade do antibiótico, administrado pela via oral, no sentido de controlar o processo e de promover cicatrização. A tolerância ao medicamento pôde ser considerada satisfatória e, por vezes, recaídas sucederam, mas afigurou-se concreta a possibilidade de incorporar o remédio em apreço ao conjunto de antiparasitários indicados para combater o referido comprometimento ocular devido ao Toxoplasma gondii. Clindamycin hydrochloride was used in the treatment of eighteen patients with Toxoplasma gondii retinochoroiditis. The drug was employed once or twice in episodic flares in each patients. Its efficacy in refraining inflammation and inducing scaring could be established when the drug was used orally. It was quite well tolerated by all patients and although recurrences were sometimes noticed, clindamycin has proved useful as an alternative therapy of the ocular involvement due to Toxoplasma gondii.