Neurosyphilis was diagnosed in 50 of 233 HIV-coinfected subjects (about 20%) on the basis of a reactive CSF VDRL in 16 patients, a CSF WBC count >20 cells/mm 3 in 22, and both of these ...

1 Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian, China 2 Department of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Longyan, Longyan, Fujian, China ...

Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp 2000, Belgium ...

Penicillin also halted the development of chronic conditions caused by untreated syphilis that appeared decades after infection. General paresis (neurosyphilis) once accounted for up to 25 percent of ...

The black circle in the center of your eye is your pupil. It changes size thousands of times a day. When you're in dim light, it gets bigger to let more light in. When you're in bright light, it ...

General paresis (neurosyphilis) once accounted for up to 25 percent of the admissions to psychiatric hospitals. Untreated syphilis also caused blindness, paralysis, organ damage to every organ and ...

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum, has undergone a dramatic global resurgence in the past ten years. The World Health Organization estimated 2.2 million (1.3 – 3.1 ...

Patients with bilateral MD or those with “Ménière-like” symptoms (e.g., acoustic neuroma, multiple sclerosis, neurosyphilis, vestibular migraine, perilymphatic fistula, otosclerosis, superior ...

A similar imaging picture is observed in tabes dorsalis in patients with neurosyphilis, which is usually identified in chronic cases as atrophy of the dorsolateral columns 29. The typical ...