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Atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: Neurosyphilis should always be considered
Syphilis still remains a major health concern worldwide because of the possibility of serious medical and psychological consequences, long-term disability, and death. Neurosyphilis (NS) may occur at any stage of infection. Its clinical presentation has been changing over recent years including psyc...
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São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636106/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26558247 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2015.021 |
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author | Crozatti, Lucas Lonardoni de Brito, Marcelo Houat Lopes, Beatriz Noele Azevedo de Campos, Fernando Peixoto Ferraz |
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description | Syphilis still remains a major health concern worldwide because of the possibility of serious medical and psychological consequences, long-term disability, and death. Neurosyphilis (NS) may occur at any stage of infection. Its clinical presentation has been changing over recent years including psychiatric and neurocognitive symptoms. Several recent studies have described cases with these symptoms as the principal signs of NS. We present the case of neurosyphilis with a psychiatric presentation characterized by mood disturbance and auditory and visual hallucinations. |
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spelling | pubmed-46361062015-11-10 Atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: Neurosyphilis should always be considered Crozatti, Lucas Lonardoni de Brito, Marcelo Houat Lopes, Beatriz Noele Azevedo de Campos, Fernando Peixoto Ferraz Autops Case Rep Article / Clinical Case Report Syphilis still remains a major health concern worldwide because of the possibility of serious medical and psychological consequences, long-term disability, and death. Neurosyphilis (NS) may occur at any stage of infection. Its clinical presentation has been changing over recent years including psychiatric and neurocognitive symptoms. Several recent studies have described cases with these symptoms as the principal signs of NS. We present the case of neurosyphilis with a psychiatric presentation characterized by mood disturbance and auditory and visual hallucinations. São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2015-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4636106/ /pubmed/26558247 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2015.021 Text en Autopsy and Case Reports. ISSN 2236-1960. Copyright © 2014. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed of terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided article is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article / Clinical Case Report Crozatti, Lucas Lonardoni de Brito, Marcelo Houat Lopes, Beatriz Noele Azevedo de Campos, Fernando Peixoto Ferraz Atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: Neurosyphilis should always be considered |
title | Atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: Neurosyphilis should always be considered |
title_full | Atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: Neurosyphilis should always be considered |
title_fullStr | Atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: Neurosyphilis should always be considered |
title_full_unstemmed | Atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: Neurosyphilis should always be considered |
title_short | Atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: Neurosyphilis should always be considered |
title_sort | atypical behavioral and psychiatric symptoms: neurosyphilis should always be considered |
topic | Article / Clinical Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636106/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26558247 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2015.021 |
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