Syphilis-Associated Proteinuria and Hepatitis in the Setting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Co-Infection

Syphilis has long been known as “the great imitator”, mimicking a wide variety of diseases, and often its diagnosis is delayed or missed. It remains an important public health issue that continues to occur at high rates among patients with HIV. We report a case of a 52-year-old man who presented wit...

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Autores principales: Jain, Hanish, Singh, Garima, Asiago-Reddy, Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9553697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36249314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7247946
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description Syphilis has long been known as “the great imitator”, mimicking a wide variety of diseases, and often its diagnosis is delayed or missed. It remains an important public health issue that continues to occur at high rates among patients with HIV. We report a case of a 52-year-old man who presented with a constellation of unusual symptoms highlighting that syphilis should be included in the differential diagnosis in patients with HIV presenting with abnormal liver enzymes, rash, proteinuria, conjunctivitis, and/or sexual risk factors.
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spelling pubmed-95536972022-10-13 Syphilis-Associated Proteinuria and Hepatitis in the Setting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Co-Infection Jain, Hanish Singh, Garima Asiago-Reddy, Elizabeth Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Syphilis has long been known as “the great imitator”, mimicking a wide variety of diseases, and often its diagnosis is delayed or missed. It remains an important public health issue that continues to occur at high rates among patients with HIV. We report a case of a 52-year-old man who presented with a constellation of unusual symptoms highlighting that syphilis should be included in the differential diagnosis in patients with HIV presenting with abnormal liver enzymes, rash, proteinuria, conjunctivitis, and/or sexual risk factors. Hindawi 2022-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9553697/ /pubmed/36249314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7247946 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hanish Jain et al. 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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Syphilis-Associated Proteinuria and Hepatitis in the Setting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Co-Infection
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title_full Syphilis-Associated Proteinuria and Hepatitis in the Setting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Co-Infection
title_fullStr Syphilis-Associated Proteinuria and Hepatitis in the Setting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Co-Infection
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title_short Syphilis-Associated Proteinuria and Hepatitis in the Setting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Co-Infection
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