Analysis of Fourteen New Cases of Meningovascular Syphilis: Renewed Interest in an Old Problem

Neurosyphilis (NS) remains a public health problem. Several recent reports suggest a worldwide increase in the incidence of this condition. Various syndromes can occur in NS, such as syphilitic meningitis, meningovascular syphilis, parenchymatous and gummatous neurosyphilis. Syphilis meningovascular...

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Autores principales: Aziouaz, Faiza, Mabrouki, Fatima Zahra, Chraa, Mohammed, Louhab, Nisrine, Adali, Nawal, Hajjaj, Imane, Kissani, Najib, Mebrouk, Yassine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8354207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34405075
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16951
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author Aziouaz, Faiza
Mabrouki, Fatima Zahra
Chraa, Mohammed
Louhab, Nisrine
Adali, Nawal
Hajjaj, Imane
Kissani, Najib
Mebrouk, Yassine
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Mabrouki, Fatima Zahra
Chraa, Mohammed
Louhab, Nisrine
Adali, Nawal
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Kissani, Najib
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description Neurosyphilis (NS) remains a public health problem. Several recent reports suggest a worldwide increase in the incidence of this condition. Various syndromes can occur in NS, such as syphilitic meningitis, meningovascular syphilis, parenchymatous and gummatous neurosyphilis. Syphilis meningovascular will be the focus of this study. We report 14 new observations of meningovascular syphilis. A review of demographic and clinical features, neuroimaging findings, cerebrospinal fluid changes, treatment and outcome, pathophysiology mechanism of meningovascular syphilis are presented.
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spelling pubmed-83542072021-08-16 Analysis of Fourteen New Cases of Meningovascular Syphilis: Renewed Interest in an Old Problem Aziouaz, Faiza Mabrouki, Fatima Zahra Chraa, Mohammed Louhab, Nisrine Adali, Nawal Hajjaj, Imane Kissani, Najib Mebrouk, Yassine Cureus Neurology Neurosyphilis (NS) remains a public health problem. Several recent reports suggest a worldwide increase in the incidence of this condition. Various syndromes can occur in NS, such as syphilitic meningitis, meningovascular syphilis, parenchymatous and gummatous neurosyphilis. Syphilis meningovascular will be the focus of this study. We report 14 new observations of meningovascular syphilis. A review of demographic and clinical features, neuroimaging findings, cerebrospinal fluid changes, treatment and outcome, pathophysiology mechanism of meningovascular syphilis are presented. Cureus 2021-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8354207/ /pubmed/34405075 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16951 Text en Copyright © 2021, Aziouaz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hajjaj, Imane
Kissani, Najib
Mebrouk, Yassine
Analysis of Fourteen New Cases of Meningovascular Syphilis: Renewed Interest in an Old Problem
title Analysis of Fourteen New Cases of Meningovascular Syphilis: Renewed Interest in an Old Problem
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title_short Analysis of Fourteen New Cases of Meningovascular Syphilis: Renewed Interest in an Old Problem
title_sort analysis of fourteen new cases of meningovascular syphilis: renewed interest in an old problem
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8354207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34405075
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16951
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