Table 1

Administration of corticosteroids without antiparasitic drugs to patients with ocular toxoplasmosis

		No of patients	Age at onset >50 years No (%)			Evidence for primary aquired infection			Corticosteroid administration		Retinal scars > 3 PD No (%)	Legal blindness of affected eye No (%)
		No of patients	Age at onset >50 years No (%)			Laboratory No (%)	Clinical No (%)		Systemic No (%)	Periocular No (%)	Retinal scars > 3 PD No (%)	Legal blindness of affected eye No (%)
Literature survey	16	10 (63)	NS	9 (56)	15 (94)	6 (38)	11 (69)	12 (75)
Present study	10	6 (60)	6 (60)	7 (70)	8 (80)	6 (60)	5 (50)	7 (70)
Total	26	16 (62)		16 (62)	23 (88)	12 (46)	16 (62)	19 (73)

↵Chorioretinitis without associated old scars.
↵See references 2–8; three patients received additional medication (two azathioprine, one sulphisoxazole respectively); five patients received systemic and periocular steroids.
Four patients received systemic and periocular steroids.
NS= not specified.