Chorea as the presenting feature of neurosyphilis.

Orofacial Involuntary Movements in Neurosyphilis: Beyond the Candy Sign

BACKGROUND Involvement of the central nervous system in patients with syphilis (neurosyphilis) may result in several neuropsychiatric symptoms. Rarely, patients with neurosyphillis may develop movement disorders with different phenomenology. Subtle orofacial dyskinesias have been reported in patients with neurosyphilis, known as the candy sign. CASE REPORT We describe a patient with neurosyph...

Early syphilis presenting as a painful polyradiculopathy in an HIV positive individual.

Neurosyphilis and neurological complications from syphilis may be commoner in HIV disease. With outbreaks of early syphilis in HIV positive individuals being observed over recent years, rare neurological manifestations of secondary syphilis will be observed more commonly. We describe a case of an HIV positive individual whose first presenting feature of early syphilis was a polyradiculopathy.

Chorea--a presenting feature of giant cell arteritis.

Chorea occurs as a hereditary or non-hereditary disorder. Nonhereditary chorea most commonly occurs in rheumatic fever (Sydenham’s Chorea) but may also be encountered in other metabolic and systemic disorders. Green House and Albuquerque listed more than forty different causes of chorea. The etiology of non-rheumatic chorea may cause diagnostic difficulties, due to its rarity. We report a 75 ye...

Vitreitis and movement disorder associated with neurosyphilis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection: case report.

In this report, we describe an unusual patient with a choreiform movement disorder, misdiagnosed as Huntington disease, who later developed dense vitreitis leading to the identification of Treponema pallidum as the underlying pathogen of both abnormalities.

Immunotherapy-responsive chorea as the presenting feature of LGI1-antibody encephalitis.