Syphilitic meningitis is a potential complication of a syphilis infection. Meningitis is an infection of the layers of tissues that cover the brain and spinal cord. It can be life threatening, but ...

Twenty-one patients with syphilitic posterior uveitis were investigated retrospectively to study the disease spectrum, associations with neurosyphilis, and therapeutic implications. Ophthalmologic ...

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Syphilitic uveitis cases requiring hospitalization increased from 2010 to 2019 in the U.S., amid a national shortage of the standard-of-care injectable penicillin G, according to a retrospective cross ...

Syphilis should be considered in the differential diagnosis for lytic osseous lesions. The diagnosis of syphilitic osteitis can be made based on clinical, radiographic, and serologic findings, and ...

Intravitreal injections with the antibiotic ceftazidime can serve as an effective stop-gap therapy for syphilitic uveitis while patients await systemic therapy, a retrospective case series suggested.

To describe the clinical and angiographic features of three cases of secondary syphilis in immunocompetent patients, which presented as acute posterior placoid chorioretinitis (APPC) to the ...

Syphilitic meningitis is a form of bacterial meningitis that occurs due to a complication of syphilis. Without treatment, it can lead to permanent injury or death. A person can develop syphilitic ...