Sub-acute Painless Vision Loss Secondary to Neuro-Ocular Syphilis

There has been a consistent increase in syphilis cases in the United States over the past two decades. The prevalence of neuro-ocular involvement in syphilis is rare; however, with the increase in the prevalence of syphilis in the United States, more frequent encounters with complications of syphili...

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Autores principales: Randhawa, Amarjyo, Randhawa, Kiratjyot, Sood, Akshat, Thirumalareddy, Joseph, Nair, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9940940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36814729
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34044
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author Randhawa, Amarjyo
Randhawa, Kiratjyot
Sood, Akshat
Thirumalareddy, Joseph
Nair, Sunil
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description There has been a consistent increase in syphilis cases in the United States over the past two decades. The prevalence of neuro-ocular involvement in syphilis is rare; however, with the increase in the prevalence of syphilis in the United States, more frequent encounters with complications of syphilis may be expected. Here, we present a case of sub-acute painless vision loss secondary to neuro-ocular syphilis.
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spelling pubmed-99409402023-02-21 Sub-acute Painless Vision Loss Secondary to Neuro-Ocular Syphilis Randhawa, Amarjyo Randhawa, Kiratjyot Sood, Akshat Thirumalareddy, Joseph Nair, Sunil Cureus Internal Medicine There has been a consistent increase in syphilis cases in the United States over the past two decades. The prevalence of neuro-ocular involvement in syphilis is rare; however, with the increase in the prevalence of syphilis in the United States, more frequent encounters with complications of syphilis may be expected. Here, we present a case of sub-acute painless vision loss secondary to neuro-ocular syphilis. Cureus 2023-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9940940/ /pubmed/36814729 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34044 Text en Copyright © 2023, Randhawa 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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Randhawa, Amarjyo
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Sood, Akshat
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title_fullStr Sub-acute Painless Vision Loss Secondary to Neuro-Ocular Syphilis
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title_short Sub-acute Painless Vision Loss Secondary to Neuro-Ocular Syphilis
title_sort sub-acute painless vision loss secondary to neuro-ocular syphilis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9940940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36814729
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34044
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