Diagnostic Challenges Arising from Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Syphilis: Insights from 11 Clinical Cases

Autor:	Diana Maria Bran, Amalia Ghergu, Irene Davidescu
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Medicine (General) business.industry screening General Medicine medicine.disease neuropsychiatric manifestations R5-920 medicine neurosyphilis Medicine Syphilis Intensive care medicine business
Zdroj:	Modern Medicine, Vol 26, Iss 1, Pp 31-33 (2019)
ISSN:	2360-2473 1223-0472
Popis:	Over the past 70 years, the incidence of syphilis has dramatically decreased and consequently the neurosyphilis one. Therefore, when a patient is presented with neuropsychiatric symptoms such as psychosis, mania, memory loss, neurocognitive troubles, attention deficits, behavioral changes, or depression, a neurosyphilis diagnosis is not the first that comes to a clinician’s mind. In fact, many times, patients are first treated with psychiatric medication when penicillin would be the appropriate line of treatment. In this article, after we review neurosyphilis, we report 11 clinical cases with neuropsychiatric manifestations of syphilis and make the case for careful syphilis screening in patients presenting with psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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