[A clinical case of ocular onchocerciasis: clinical, angiofluorographic and developmental aspects]

The authors discuss one case of ocular onchocerciasis. Not only corneal damage (punctate keratitis) is present, but also chorioretinal signs are seen: in the right eye at an advanced stage and in the left one provoked by the onset of the specific treatment using diethylcarbamazine citrate. During the 1 st year follow up, a further evolution of the chorioretinal lesion was noted in the right eye, while the left eye presented a partial regression of the above lesions. The characteristic angiographic findings, the particular site (temporal paramacular) and the arousal of the lesions provoked by the treatment are factors which denote the importance of choriocapillaritis, probably due to immunity reactions.