A Case of Ocular Syphilis in an HIV-Positive Patient With Penicillin Allergy

Ocular syphilis has a wide range of presentations; however, the most common findings are ophthalmalgia, blurry vision, and erythematous conjunctiva. This report presents a case of ocular syphilis in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient with an allergy to penicillin. On presentation, the p...

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Autores principales: Cubelo, Merly, Granela, Odelvys, Kalia, Rishi, Cadet, Francoeur
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/PMC9574520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36262948
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29203
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author Cubelo, Merly
Granela, Odelvys
Kalia, Rishi
Cadet, Francoeur
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description Ocular syphilis has a wide range of presentations; however, the most common findings are ophthalmalgia, blurry vision, and erythematous conjunctiva. This report presents a case of ocular syphilis in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient with an allergy to penicillin. On presentation, the patient was diagnosed using a fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption test, in addition to rapid plasma reagin. In this case, the patient received alternative treatment with doxycycline prior to penicillin desensitization, with marked improvement of his symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-95745202022-10-18 A Case of Ocular Syphilis in an HIV-Positive Patient With Penicillin Allergy Cubelo, Merly Granela, Odelvys Kalia, Rishi Cadet, Francoeur Cureus Internal Medicine Ocular syphilis has a wide range of presentations; however, the most common findings are ophthalmalgia, blurry vision, and erythematous conjunctiva. This report presents a case of ocular syphilis in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient with an allergy to penicillin. On presentation, the patient was diagnosed using a fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption test, in addition to rapid plasma reagin. In this case, the patient received alternative treatment with doxycycline prior to penicillin desensitization, with marked improvement of his symptoms. Cureus 2022-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9574520/ /pubmed/36262948 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29203 Text en Copyright © 2022, Cubelo 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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