نتایج جستجو برای: neurosyphilis
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Serological and non-serological tests were performed in matched samples of cerebrospinalfluidand serum from236 syphilitic patients. An increased lgG or lgM index, or both, was found about70 times more often in symptomatic neurosyphilis than in latent syphilis without involvement of the central nervous system. An increased Ig index, together with a cell count >5/4., was only found in symptomatic...
BACKGROUND Neurosyphilis is caused by the invasion of Treponema pallidum into the central nervous system. General paresis (GP) is a type of neurosyphilis. The main manifestation of general paresis is dementia; however, this is different from the other types of dementia, which can be cured by adequate doses of penicillin in the early stage. Neurosyphilis is the "great imitator" because it can mi...
Neurosyphilis can occur at any stage of syphilis infection, even in patients who have received timely and proper treatment (1, 2). The choice of which syphilitic patients should undergo examination of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to diagnose neurosyphilis is difficult. The use of selective lumbar puncture criteria, based on serum titres of non-treponemal tests, have been considered (3–8). We h...
A 15-year-old girl with neurosyphilis was misdiagnosed as having viral encephalitis with psychotic symptoms and Parkinsonism. We found that she was experiencing visual hallucinations, persecutory delusions, flattening of affect, poorness of thought, tremors, four-limb rigidity, and restlessness, and she was unable to communicate with others. The Venereal Disease Research Laboratory serum test a...
Five patients with laboratory evidence of latent or neurosyphilis were treated orally with doxycycline (200 mg) twice a day for 21 days. After the seventh dose, the mean level of doxycycline in serum was 5.8 micrograms/ml, with a mean drug level in cerebrospinal fluid of 1.3 micrograms/ml. The mean penetration into cerebrospinal fluid was 26%. These preliminary findings suggest that doxycycline...
A differential diagnosis between neurosarcoidosis and neurosyphilis is particularly problematic in patients with a positive serologic result for syphilis. We report here a patient with a solitary cavernous sinus sarcoidosis who had a history of syphilis and showed rapidly progressing cavernous sinus syndrome. A transsphenoidal biopsy was performed and a histopathologic examination revealed a no...
Received 11 June 2008; accepted 19 June 2008; electronically published 20 August 2008. Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Daniel M. Musher, Infectious Disease Section, Rm. 4B-370, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030 ([email protected]). Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008; 47:900–2 This article is in the public domain, and no copyright is...
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