[Retinochoroidopathy in a patient with seropositive trichinosis]

A 28 years old butcher contracted a systemic trichinosis after fasting sausage. Twelve days after onset of systemic symptoms he developed a hemorrhagic maculopathy in his left eye. In addition, on both eyes there were focal atrophies of the retinal pigment epithelium in the mid-periphery. We believe a causal connection of the maculopathy with his serologically proven trichinosis as a retinal involvement is well known in trichinosis and histologically demonstrated by Herrenschwand (1928). To our knowledge this is the first case of hemorrhagic maculopathy in trichinosis.