An Eye-Opening Presentation of Syphilis

Syphilis has been called “the great masquerader.” In this case report, we present a case of an HIV-negative patient with left eye redness and decreased vision. Syphilitic anterior uveitis as a complication of neurosyphilis was subsequently diagnosed and the patient showed marked improvement with tre...

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Autores principales: Torrente, Natalie, Verdecia, Jorge, Sands, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9206394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35747033
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25132
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description Syphilis has been called “the great masquerader.” In this case report, we present a case of an HIV-negative patient with left eye redness and decreased vision. Syphilitic anterior uveitis as a complication of neurosyphilis was subsequently diagnosed and the patient showed marked improvement with treatment. 
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spelling pubmed-92063942022-06-22 An Eye-Opening Presentation of Syphilis Torrente, Natalie Verdecia, Jorge Sands, Michael Cureus Internal Medicine Syphilis has been called “the great masquerader.” In this case report, we present a case of an HIV-negative patient with left eye redness and decreased vision. Syphilitic anterior uveitis as a complication of neurosyphilis was subsequently diagnosed and the patient showed marked improvement with treatment.  Cureus 2022-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9206394/ /pubmed/35747033 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25132 Text en Copyright © 2022, Torrente 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9206394/
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