Subacute Hypophysitis with Panhypopituitarism as First Presentation of HIV and Syphilis Coinfection

Infection by Treponema pallidum still represents a clinical challenge due to its various forms of presentation. HIV coinfection added diversity and changed the natural history of syphilis as a systemic infection. We present a rare case of subacute hypophysitis and panhypopituitarism due to an early...

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Autores principales: Alves, Rute, França, Margarida
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5439250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1489210
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description Infection by Treponema pallidum still represents a clinical challenge due to its various forms of presentation. HIV coinfection added diversity and changed the natural history of syphilis as a systemic infection. We present a rare case of subacute hypophysitis and panhypopituitarism due to an early active neurosyphilis in a previously unknown HIV coinfected patient.
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spelling pubmed-54392502017-05-31 Subacute Hypophysitis with Panhypopituitarism as First Presentation of HIV and Syphilis Coinfection Alves, Rute França, Margarida Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Infection by Treponema pallidum still represents a clinical challenge due to its various forms of presentation. HIV coinfection added diversity and changed the natural history of syphilis as a systemic infection. We present a rare case of subacute hypophysitis and panhypopituitarism due to an early active neurosyphilis in a previously unknown HIV coinfected patient. Hindawi 2017 2017-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5439250/ /pubmed/28567314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1489210 Text en Copyright © 2017 Rute Alves and Margarida França. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Subacute Hypophysitis with Panhypopituitarism as First Presentation of HIV and Syphilis Coinfection
title_full Subacute Hypophysitis with Panhypopituitarism as First Presentation of HIV and Syphilis Coinfection
title_fullStr Subacute Hypophysitis with Panhypopituitarism as First Presentation of HIV and Syphilis Coinfection
title_full_unstemmed Subacute Hypophysitis with Panhypopituitarism as First Presentation of HIV and Syphilis Coinfection
title_short Subacute Hypophysitis with Panhypopituitarism as First Presentation of HIV and Syphilis Coinfection
title_sort subacute hypophysitis with panhypopituitarism as first presentation of hiv and syphilis coinfection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5439250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567314
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