Neurosyphilis and Psychiatry

Neurosyphilis: Its Treatment and Prophylaxis.

The treatment of neurosyphilis.

The Silence of Neurosyphilis

Introduction Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection. The infectious organism is a spirochete bacterium called Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. This organism also may transmit vertically inutero from mother to fetus resulting in congenital syphilis. The following is a case report of tertiary syphilis in the form of tabes dorsalis. This case is of interest due to the rarity of late n...

Experimental Ocular Syphilis and Neurosyphilis.

The challenge in clinical syphilis to-day is the detection of the disease in the sero-negative patient. The magnitude of this problem is evident when one considers that over 100 cases of ocular syphilis and neurosyphilis have been encountered in this institution within the past year (Smith, 1964; Smith and Moore, 1964; Smith and Taylor, 1965). Ofparamount importance is the fact that the majorit...

Psychiatric manifestations of neurosyphilis.

To investigate referral patterns, initial diagnoses and clinical features of patients with neurosyphilis who present with psychiatric manifestations, records were kept of 21 such patients admitted to an acute psychiatric ward. In none of the 12 cases referred from primary care workers was the possibility of neurosyphilis considered. In only 3 cases was this diagnosis considered on admission to ...